Re: Changing the keys to edit menu entries and showing command line

[Chris Jones]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:34:47PM EDT, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> В Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:25:57 +0100
> Joseba Nevado <address@hidden> пишет:

> > Hello everybody,

> > I have been searching the web looking for a way to change the default 
> > keys that you need to press in order to edit menu entries or entering 
> > command line ('e' and 'c' by default) so they are not easily pressed.
> > The thing is that I share my PC with my parents, and they know nothing 
> > about computers (they just boot Windows and play card games xD), and I 
> > recently had to reinstall GRUB 2 because they actually managed to 
> > corrupt GRUB somehow (don't ask me how, they said they just pressed "one 
> > key").

> > So I'm thinking on changing these default keys and setting them to ALT+e 
> > and ALT+c for example.
> > Is there any way to do this? 

> Currently they are hardcoded so the only way to change them is to edit
> sources and recompile.

Confirms my first impression. 

Sounds like the OP's parents know a lot more about computers than they
care to tell... :-)

Otherwise, my first reaction if anything like this happened on a system
I administer would be to suspect some form of trojan.

Was this grub installed from a mainstream distribution..?

CJ