OT-ANN: grub-choose-default 0.6

[Mike Massonnet]

Quite a success :-) It's been picked up on Ubuntu Geek[0], although
they suggest to install it from the Debian/Ubuntu repository which
packages the version 0.2.

[0] http://www.ubuntugeek.com/grub-choose-default-control-grub-default-through-a-gui.html

Cheers
Mike

2010/4/19 David Mohr <squisher at xfce.org>:
> Hi everyone,
> this isn't exactly Xfce related, but bear with me for a moment.
>
> I'm happy to announce grub-choose-default 0.6, a GUI to set the grub
> default boot entry.
>  http://ds.mcbf.net/wiki/GrubChooseDefault
>
> When switching OSes it is a pain to wait for the reboot to get to the
> grub menu to select the other OS you want to boot. With
> grub-choose-default you can quickly select the OS you want to boot,
> reboot, and switch the default again from the other OS.
>
> It's written in C/Gtk, and only supports grub2 (1.98+). A windows
> version is available as well, see the homepage for more information.
>
> One reason I post this here is that I designed the program so that it
> can be used as a library (although a stand alone library is not yet
> provided). It's not high priority for me, but it should not be much
> work to integrate it into the session logout screen. I'd be interested
> in hearing how many people would be interested in such an integration.
>
> Thanks,
> ~David
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