[Bug 1962314] Re: grub 2 custom.cfg colors not all used in Advanced options

[Guy Rouillier]

** Description changed:

  1) Ubuntu MATE 21.10
  2) grub 2.04-1ubuntu47
  3) I use text-mode for Grub, so made the following changes in /etc/default/grub:
  
  GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=timeout
  GRUB_TERMINAL=console
  
  I then created a /boot/grub/custom.cfg with the following entries:
  
  color_normal="light-gray/blue"
  color_highlight="white/blue"
  menu_color_normal="light-gray/blue"
  menu_color_highlight="yellow/magenta"
  
  I expect these colors to be used on both the initial menu showing the OS
  version, Advanced options, and two Memory test options; and also on the
- Advanced options showing the list of available kernels.
+ Advanced options submenu showing the list of available kernels.
  
  4) What I'm seeing is that these colors are accurately reflected on the
  initial text menu.  However, if I select Advanced Options to show the
  list of kernels, then the first three color specs are shown properly.
  But the last one, for the highlighted menu entry is not respected.
  Instead, the color_highlight combination of white/blue is used instead.
+ 
+ Perhaps menu_color_highlight is not used on submenus, but I cannot find
+ anything that states this restriction.

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Title:
  grub 2 custom.cfg colors not all used in Advanced options

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  1) Ubuntu MATE 21.10
  2) grub 2.04-1ubuntu47
  3) I use text-mode for Grub, so made the following changes in /etc/default/grub:

  GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=timeout
  GRUB_TERMINAL=console

  I then created a /boot/grub/custom.cfg with the following entries:

  color_normal="light-gray/blue"
  color_highlight="white/blue"
  menu_color_normal="light-gray/blue"
  menu_color_highlight="yellow/magenta"

  I expect these colors to be used on both the initial menu showing the
  OS version, Advanced options, and two Memory test options; and also on
  the Advanced options submenu showing the list of available kernels.

  4) What I'm seeing is that these colors are accurately reflected on
  the initial text menu.  However, if I select Advanced Options to show
  the list of kernels, then the first three color specs are shown
  properly.  But the last one, for the highlighted menu entry is not
  respected.  Instead, the color_highlight combination of white/blue is
  used instead.

  Perhaps menu_color_highlight is not used on submenus, but I cannot
  find anything that states this restriction.

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