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#1 2025-06-03 00:27:56

GalacticStone
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(SOLVED) Skipping or Hiding GRUB on boot, and User Image parameters

I looked for a solution for this, but couldn't find one specific to Debian or BL.

How do I skip the BL GRUB menu and just boot straight to the OS login?

I know that I would need to edit the GRUB config file and set the GRUB delay to zero to skip GRUB, but would this make it almost impossible to get into GRUB again later if I need to? And is this method valid for BL?

I'd like to streamline my boot sequence a little and I don't need to use these accessibility options or see them every time I boot.

Second question - I'd like to change the user image at login and I see the place to do it in the Login Interface editor. My question is, does the image need to be a certain size or format?

Thanks in advance!

MikeG

Last edited by GalacticStone (2025-06-03 20:14:53)


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#2 2025-06-03 00:56:50

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Re: (SOLVED) Skipping or Hiding GRUB on boot, and User Image parameters

This is part of my /etc/default/grub  file:

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
#GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=8
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

I have set:

GRUB_TIMEOUT=8

I left 8s before booting.
You can reduce it to 1s or 2s.

Don't forget to run in terminal:

$ sudo update-grub

Reboot.

For the second question, wait for one of the moderators because I'm currently using Ubuntu (GNOME).
Good luck!


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#3 2025-06-03 01:27:36

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Re: (SOLVED) Skipping or Hiding GRUB on boot, and User Image parameters

As @marens said, reduce the timeout in /etc/default/grub. Setting it to 2 (it's in seconds) should be quick enough. Then run 'sudo update-grub'.

You can set it to 0 and if you need to get to grub, edit it to a higher value after login, run 'sudo update-grub' and reboot.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 … ing_GRUB_2

The avatar image size for the lightdm-gtk-greeter is 96x96px (at least), it should be a PNG image, and it needs to be somewhere in the root directory (like in /usr/share/images or /usr/share/lightdm). Then use the GUI to set it and save the settings (System Settings>Login Interface).

-edit- The Bunsen Flame Penguin icon is 256x256px, it's located in /usr/share/icons/Bunsen-lightdm/256x256/status, and it's named avatar-default.png. You can see it has a transparent background, and it is frosty. cool

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#4 2025-06-03 05:31:59

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Re: (SOLVED) Skipping or Hiding GRUB on boot, and User Image parameters

For the user icon on the lightdm login screen, it's provided by a custom lightdm icon theme

icon-theme-name = Bunsen-lightdm

in /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.d/50_bunsen.conf
and /usr/share/icons/Bunsen-lightdm is provided by bunsen-configs, but you can make your own custom icon theme for lightdm and set it in menu > System Settings > Login Interface

There's only a single icon in that theme so instead of creating a new icon theme you could just go in as root and edit /usr/share/icons/Bunsen-lightdm/256x256/status/avatar-default.png, but it would be overwritten by a package upgrade of bunsen-configs.

Either way, it would be quite a lot of work for something you only see for a few seconds.


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#5 2025-06-03 14:20:29

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Re: (SOLVED) Skipping or Hiding GRUB on boot, and User Image parameters

Thanks for the help everyone! This place rocks.

I'm a nitpicker with my system, so that's part of the reason I moved away from Windoze and Ubuntu. I like more control over things, even the little stuff.

I made my login splash screen a photo of the Muppets Dr. Bunsen Honeydew in his lab with Beaker. Bunsen's lab, get it? LOL. I thought it was appropriate.

My login splash - https://files.mastodon.social/media_att … e85fd8.jpg

It's perfect because the login prompt appears right on Beaker's face - making you the assistant, so to speak. LOL.

Last edited by GalacticStone (2025-06-03 14:21:10)


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#6 2025-06-04 00:39:59

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Re: (SOLVED) Skipping or Hiding GRUB on boot, and User Image parameters

GalacticStone wrote:

I made my login splash screen a photo of the Muppets Dr. Bunsen Honeydew in his lab with Beaker. Bunsen's lab, get it? LOL. I thought it was appropriate.

Er, yes we get it. smile
BunsenLabs is a continuation of CrunchBang. While Debian release names are based on Toy Story characters, the CrunchBang developer Corenominal chose Muppet names - Statler, Waldorf...
So the BunsenLabs name came from the Muppets connection.

But maybe you knew that...


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#7 2025-06-04 14:49:18

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Re: (SOLVED) Skipping or Hiding GRUB on boot, and User Image parameters

johnraff wrote:
GalacticStone wrote:

I made my login splash screen a photo of the Muppets Dr. Bunsen Honeydew in his lab with Beaker. Bunsen's lab, get it? LOL. I thought it was appropriate.

Er, yes we get it. smile
BunsenLabs is a continuation of CrunchBang. While Debian release names are based on Toy Story characters, the CrunchBang developer Corenominal chose Muppet names - Statler, Waldorf...
So the BunsenLabs name came from the Muppets connection.

But maybe you knew that...

Brainfart moment for me. No, I did not realize the obvious with that one. LOL.

A nice bit of synchronicity because I've always been a Muppets and Jim Henson fan. It might be a subconscious reason I was first drawn to BL...

I knew that CrunchBang spawned BL, but I didn't know much about #! or it's history, so the Muppets connection escaped me.


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