OT-ANN: grub-choose-default 0.6

[Doug Laidlaw]

Mandriva 2010's libraries aren't recent enough.  Will try it in Cooker.

Doug.

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:14:23 +0200
Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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