I just installed patience and it has a special theme while booting, how do I get the debian style text boot messages instead of the graphical one?
/etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet systemd.show_status=1"
then
update-grub
That didn't do it. That line is already in there. There's a file /etc/default/grub.d/siduction.cfg that sets the theme. I can't see where that file is called nor do I know what to set the theme line to in order to unset the theme. I've looked everywhere in /etc/grub.d but don't see where the siduction config is called and the code in those files is a bit much for me to read and I don't want to experiment.
Here is the section from my /etc/default/grub, and I have no theme during booting:
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
As in other cases where config directories exist (like sources.list.d/*), as long as /etc/default/grub.d/siduction.cfg exists its content will override /etc/default/grub
So either move that file away to a save place or justapt remove patience-grub-theme
@der_bud: looks like a little bit of overkill
# LANG=C apt remove patience-grub-theme :(
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
patience-lxqt-artwork patience-sddm-settings
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
patience-common-settings patience-grub-theme patience-lxqt-settings
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 327 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
it might be a more sensible approach just to comment out not needed lines
@vayu - have a look into grub-mkconfig
Thanks all. Commenting out the line "GRUB_THEME=/usr/share/grub/themes/patience/theme.txt" in the file /etc/default/grub.d/siduction.cfg did the trick.