Grub customizer - Organise your GRUB

GRUB is the boot loader for your Ubuntu system.

By default, it looks something like this :

Boring and Black & White.

If you want to change the view of this GRUB, then the easiest way that i've found is the Grub Customizer. Grub Customizer is a graphical interface to manage your grub loader.

Here are some of the features of it :

• Manages various entries to be displayed on the grub
• Helps you reorder the grub menu entries
• Allows you to set the timeout duration
• Allows you to set the default menu selection
• Can change the appearances of the grub. You can add background to your grub loader and as well change the various color schemes provided. 

The screenshot of Grub Customizer is here :

Whenever you have a kernel update, there will be a new entry in the grub loader and in course of time, your grub gets messy. So you can use grub customizer to completely clean the list, re order it and manage it.

To install Grub Customizer go to your terminal and type the following 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install grub-customizer

If you have any queries then please feel free to comment.
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How to extend sudo's timeout in Ubuntu

If you're wondering what this is about, then here is the scenario.

You open your terminal and try to execute some privileged commands and you got to add sudo to it. Like, for example, when you have to change permissions you use 'sudo chmod 777 file.txt'. And then it asks for your password. But once you do it, it won't ask you for the password for the 'sudo' commands that you enter in the next 5 minutes. 5 minutes is the default timeout period for which time the terminal is going to remember your password. If you want to extend it then here's how.

You need to edit the sudoers.tmp file. For that, go to your terminal and type this :

gksudo gedit /etc/sudoers

Find the line that says :

Defaults evn_reset

Change it into

Defaults evn_reset , timestamp_timeout=x

where x is the timeout period in minutes.

If you want your terminal to remember your password for as long as you are not logged out or close window, then keep the value of x as -1.