Why does rEFInd not allow to change theme?

rEFInd is properly installed and up & running. I followed this method:

mkdir /Volumes/efi

Then mounted:

sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/efi

Then I created a themes folder in Efi/refind/ folder and copied the theme folder there refind-ambience-master into there. I triggered the settings:

 echo "include rEFInd-minimal-master/theme.conf" >> refind.conf

And when I reboot the computer it instead of changing theme showing a zoomed background with less options/buttons:

Why does refind not change the theme?

1 Answer

The theme.conf file in the Ambience theme is hard-coded to look for files in the themes\refind-ambience subdirectory of the main rEFInd directory on the ESP; however, it sounds like you renamed this directory to either themes\refind-ambience-master or themes\rEFInd-minimal-master (you refer to both locations). You must either use the directory names specified by the theme's author or update theme.conf to match your own names. If you change the directory name without updating theme.conf, then only the parts of theme.conf that do not refer to those directories will take effect. These include banner_scale fillscreen, which causes the banner to fill the screen; and a couple of options to hide most UI elements aside from the OS selectors. You will not get the updated banner (background image) or changed icons.

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