thecodermehedi / refind-minimalistic

This forked theme is modified version of refind-theme by kvnbias

rEFInd Minimalistic Theme

rEFInd is an easy to use boot manager for UEFI based systems. This is a clean and minimal theme for it.

NOTE: This theme is forked and modified version of refind-theme by kvnbias

The original theme was a combination of rEFInd-minimal and refind-dreary.

Installation

Fork this repository to you local directory by running the following command in terminal.

git clone https://github.com/iammrmehedi/rEFInd-Minimalistic-Theme.git

Usage

1. Locate your refind EFI directory. This is commonly /boot/EFI/refind though it will depend on where you mount your ESP and where rEFInd is installed. fdisk -l and mount may help.

2. Create a folder called themes inside it, if it doesn't already exist

3. Clone this repository into the themes directory.

4. To enable the theme add include themes/rEFInd-Minimalistic-Theme/theme.conf at the end of refind.conf.

Here's an example menuentry configuration (from the screenshot)

menuentry "Windows 11 Pro" {
 icon \EFI\refind\themes\rEFInd-Minimalistic-Theme\icons\os_win11.png
     loader \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
}
menuentry "Debian" {
    icon /EFI/refind/themes/rEFInd-Minimalistic-Theme/icons/os_debian.png
    volume 53f60ca1-c118-4885-b66b-3f29039e5a43
    loader /boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-9-amd64
    initrd /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-9-amd64
    options "root=UUID=60ebb4c2-e9e3-4ba4-a0a8-f662d51d8b4d ro quiet nomodeset mitigations=off "
}

Entries that are autodetected should also show the proper icons.

Background sizes

If you find the background looks blurry it may be due to the included wallpaper being an incorrect resolution for your monitor. You can download the original high quality wallpaper, resize it as appropriate, and replace the background.png.

You can of course also choose your own background!

Attribution

The OS icons are from Lightness for burg by SWOriginal.

The background is Minimalist Wallpaper by LeonardoAIanB. Thank you to Padster for locating it!