Well, xpm files always specify their own colormap. If those colors need to be selected from some "default" set, I'd love to know where to find the description of that default :-).

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 11:48 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: That should be in the images, itself. The images are 14 colours, it gets to use them however it wants. Black and white are used by GRUB, for the text. Altogether, that's a 16 colour image. I would have thought basic video BIOS graphics could do better than that, but maybe not. All the images that I made had their own palette, and displayed in GRUB the same as they did outside of it. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 10:25 +0930, Tim wrote: Now, I have. Images seem to display as I expect them to (as I viewed them while creating them). The trick is making an image that looks good as a 640 by 480 pixel image, using just 14 colours. I used the sepia function on my digital camera, that seems to dither down to 14 colours fairly neatly. It'd also help to have a template for the text area used by GRUB, so you can keep cluttered graphics out of the area used for the menu text. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. Address harvesting scumbots of the world, some food for you. These people like spam: <info(a)allmightytrader.com&gt; They must do, they keep spamming me. I hope they get drowned by some, in return.

On 30Jun2008 10:25, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au&gt; wrote: | On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 20:19 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: | > I have from time to time tried to make my own grub boot | > image. I've seen all the rules I'm supposed to follow about | > making it the right size and the right number of colors, and | > my own attempts often work out fine. | > | > But then there are those other times, when I'll have an | > image that looks perfectly fine in gimp, or eog, or whatever, | > but when grub displays it, the colors are completely wacked | > out - not at all like the colors specified in the xpm file. You say you've followed all the rules. What rules, exactly? As I recall grub XPM images need to have a maximum of 14 colours. I make them this way: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/bin/mkgrubsplash and seem to have success. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs(a)zip.com.au&gt; DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ The revolution will not be televised. - Mike Mitten, gnome(a)pd.org, DoD#522