Thoughts on grub boot menu and calendar on panel

[Bill_MI]

I suggest taking a look at grub in console mode. You may never go back.

Grub in Console Mode anyone?

Continuing the discussion from Grub theme is too slow: I'm leery posting this as a step-by-step howto because grub, frankly, scares me with all the changes I've been wrestling with the last few years. I'd hate to see a new user make his system unbootable. Things like config files scattered helter-skelter, tweaks and comments edited by distros that are flat wrong (not UM BTW), deprecated things with no replacements. It's my rage topic. That said, the way I solve a lot of issues is get grub o…