Minimalist rEFInd Themes

rEFInd is a boot manager for UEFI based systems. These are 4 clean and minimal themes for it.

This version is based on the 2013 theme by Evan Purkhiser with some modifications and additional dark theme, nord theme, and gruvbox theme.

Light Theme

Dark Theme

Nord Theme

Gruvbox Theme

Usage

1. Install rEFInd and 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-minimal-themes/<your-theme-style>/theme.conf at the end of refind.conf. For example, include themes/rEFInd-minimal-themes/rEFInd-minimal-light/theme.conf Or just copy 3 folders and use a shorter directory line.

5. Uncomment scanfor external,manual in refind.conf.

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

menuentry "Manjaro Linux" {
    icon /EFI/refind/themes/rEFInd-minimal-light/icons_light/os_manjaro.png
    volume 84D8A95B-8A17-4C49-A29D-30DBBE068056
    loader /boot/vmlinuz-4.19-x86_64
    initrd /boot/initramfs-4.19-x86_64.img
    options "root=UUID=523ea1d9-0cd0-4760-8941-db06da1a4aa6 rw  quiet resume=UUID=7d906c0e-5230-43ef-8aeb-f42b99e29041 initrd=/boot/amd-ucode.img"
    submenuentry "Use fallback initramfs" {
        initrd /boot/initramfs-4.19-x86_64-fallback.img
    }
}

menuentry "Windows 10 Pro" {
    icon \EFI\refind\themes\rEFInd-minimal-light\icons_light\os_win10.png
    loader \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
}

menuentry "elementary OS" {
    icon /EFI/refind/themes/rEFInd-minimal-light/icons_light/os_elementary.png
    volume 94133D0F-12BC-4D73-8952-B314CB30479D
    loader /boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-55-generic
    initrd /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-55-generic
    options "root=UUID=7e1ac44f-c126-4380-b90e-1f420c95f05c ro quiet splash $vt_handoff"
}

menuentry "Debian Linux" {
    icon /EFI/refind/themes/rEFInd-minimal-light/icons_light/os_debian.png
    volume E605741D-0015-4471-9711-803066C4455A
    loader /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-0.bpo.1-amd64
    initrd /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-0.bpo.1-amd64
    options "root=UUID=edc276be-fcf5-443f-83fa-eb8f5e15af55 ro quiet nomodeset"
}

Entries that are autodetected should also show the proper icons.

• For the volume token, use the partition label that contain the OS. If this label isn't unique, use blkid command to get the PARTUUID (GUID) of that partition.
• For other tokens, just modify as match as /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
• Remember to config theme.cfg again after a system kernel upgrade.

Read more about rEFInd configuration at this link

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_<style>.png.

You can of course also choose your own background!

Attribution

The OS icons are from Lightness for burg by SWOriginal. The OS icons color of dark theme and gruvbox theme was colorized by me.

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