With theme plugin in this article, you can set text mode as Ventoy's default display mode.Press F7 repeatedly to switch back and forth between text mode and GUI mode. This is one-time effective and needs to be set every time you boot into Ventoy. F5 Tools->Screen Display Mode->Force Text Mode menu.You can use the following methods to switch display mode: In this case you need to switch to TEXT mode.īoth text mode and GUI mode provide the same features, only that the GUI mode is more beautiful. But it may have some problems in some special machine with GUI mode. Optional, each item is a full path of the font file to be loaded Optional, the color of the ventoy version info, default is '#0000ff' Optional, top position of the ventoy version info, default is '95%' Optional, left position of the ventoy version info, default is '5%'

port speed), -unit=0 corresponding to COM1, -unit=1 corresponding to COM2.

This parameter is used to set the serial(e.g. Optional, will be used only if display_mode is set to serial or serial_console Attention: Unicode characters will NOT be displayed normally in CLI or serial mode. However, both 'GUI' and 'CLI' need a VGA device, if your machine only has serial, you can use serialĪlso you can use serial_console if you have both serial and VGA device. In this case you can set the default mode to 'CLI'. On very few machines Ventoy's menu can't be shown or the cursor moves extremely slow. 'GUI' or 'CLI' corresponding to the GUI mode and TEXT mode respectively. Optional, the menu display mode, GUI CLI serial serial_console default is GUI Optional, the gfxmode for grub2, default is '1024x768' (This is the default value) 1: Select the 1st theme when boot. Meanings as follows: 0: randomly select a theme when boot. This option only take effect when file is a string array. When you use a string array, you can use default_file option to select which one to use when boot.īesides, with latest Ventoy release you can switch between these themes after boot. It can be a single string or a string array.

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