My appoligies, I sent the mail incomplete the first time. As I said in my previous post, due to some changes upstream which included GRUB_THEME entries in 00_header.in, I decided to redo the patches.
The issue resolved with the patches are the same. That current implementation of the debian grub package put the entries in a place that when using hidden timeout mode, it will cause some erratic behavior as explained before. The new implementations mimicks the new GRUB_THEME entries, and place the background code entries just above them in 00_header.in. Also adds an entry to grub-mkconfig.in, allowing the tool to recognize the background variable and be able to use it. Applying these patches, and defining the background entry in /etc/default/grub there will be no need for a 05_debian_theme file, and it will be able to be modified as othe grub entries in the default config. There are 3 patches included. background-image-in-mkconfig.patch -> adds background entries with its dependency (loads required module) http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29252 hidden-timeout-fix.patch -> fix the double timeout issue using hidden timeout entry http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29250 menucolors-in-mkconfig.patch -> adds menu color entries to 00_header.in and grub-mkconfig.in https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29258
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