[xubuntu-users] Wrong Xubuntu entry in startup menu

[Roderick Aldridge]

Robert W Best wrote:
> I installed Xubuntu 9.10 but on the startup menu it appears as Ubuntu,
> Linux 2.6.31 ...
> This entry now occurs twice in the startup menu because I had already
> Ubuntu 9.10 installed on another partition.
> I can change the first Ubuntu entry to Xubuntu in /boot/grub/grub.cfg
> but that lasts only until the next sudo update-grub command.
> So the question is, where does update-grub get wrong information about
> Xubuntu?
>
>   
(X)ubuntu 9.10 uses Grub 2 which is a major rewrite and uses a different 
way to store and edit configuration files. The easiest way to deal with 
simple configuration tasks is by installing Startup-Manager with 
Synaptic or from the command line

sudo apt-get install startupmanager.

Information on 
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/startup-manager-change-settings-in-grub-grub2-and-usplash.html


Roderick Aldridge