[SOLVED] Am I the only one who...

[Snowhog]

Grub Menu:

/boot/grub/grub.cfg:


The Menu Entry description is being cut off. Why?

[oshunluvr]

Looks like the grub "breeze" theme is set too narrow for the long kernel name. I haven't noticed it because I usually just hit enter. The boot menu (aka list of kernels) is set at a width of 400 and 50% left. Try editing /boot/grub/themes/breeze/theme.txt and change the "Show the boot menu" section from:

left = 50%-200
width = 400

to

left = 50%-400
width = 800

and see how it looks.

[Snowhog]

That makes it worse.

To be clear, with the settings unchanged, the Main Grub Menu displays the entries fine. It's when I go to Advanced options for KDE neon 6.3 GNU/Linux that the menu entries are truncated.

Added:

Just changing width = 400 to width = 600 was sufficient:

[oshunluvr]

That makes since.

You should note that the devs seem to regularly replace the theme.txt file meaning your edit will get wiped every couple weeks.

In my case, I have 4K monitors and the menu text is too small for my old eyes. I made a lost of changes to the theme including changing the font typeface and size.

I named my theme file "theme.hidpi" and put it in with theme.txt. Then when they update the theme, I just have to copy my theme file over theme.txt and and back in business.

I didn't want to try to make it immutable because I'm not sure how updating might be impacted.

[oshunluvr]

Another interesting thing - my theme (the default or my edited version) do not show the kernel versions in the boot selections. It just shows two entries "Neon GNU/Linux" and "Advanced options for for Neon GNU/Linux". The kernel versions don't appear in the lines unless I select "Advanced options..."

Curious that thy're different - unless you're not using breeze theme I guess.