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I remember trying to rename LILO (from "Loading Linux" fame) to PIPO [1] by simply editing the bytes with a hex editor. Turned out that didn't work, because th

by smokel 3y ago

I remember trying to rename LILO (from "Loading Linux" fame) to PIPO [1] by simply editing the bytes with a hex editor. Turned out that didn't work, because there was an additional sanity check that halted the boot process if the "LI" bytes were corrupted. Of course I put through and was a happy user of PIPO for some years, until Grub came along. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipo_de_Clown https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipo_de_Clown

thaumasiotes 3y ago
When I was running Gentoo, I wanted to replace the GNOME foot that appeared on the dropdown menu with a Gentoo-fish-in-a-wizard-hat icon. I found documentation suggesting that the icon shown on the menu was set in a certain configuration file, and changed that file. This meant that, when I was using the normal UI to customize the GNOME topbar, the icon associated with that menu, in the GUI, was the fish-wizard icon. But it did not change the icon displayed in the menu itself. I always resented that. I still don't like the concept of hiding configuration lest the user change it.