hrshbh/plymouth-themes

Boot Animations (Plymouth themes) for the GNU/Linux Operating System.

Plymouth Themes

The repository contains themes which can be used as boot animations in Linux distributions. The themes have been tested on Ubuntu 16.04 LTE and Debian 10 Buster.

NOTE: The animations are smoother than they appear here in gifs. I was lazy when I was creating gif frames.

Name	Theme GIF	Name	Theme GIF
Mario		ECorp-Spinner
ECorp-Glitch		Mr-Robot
Stalker

Getting Started

The Plymouth theme directory

Find out the repository in which the Plymouth themes are located. In Debian-based distributions this is,

/usr/share/plymouth/themes/

This command can be used to find out the path to the directory, in which files with the extension .plymouth are located:

find /usr/ -name '*.plymouth'

NOTE: If the directory containing the plymouth themes is not /usr/share/plymouth/themes/, corresponding changes will be needed in the paths mentioned in .plymouth file of the theme that is downloaded from here.

Copying files to Plymouth theme directory

Copy the directory corresponding to the desired Plymouth Theme into the themes repository. Super user privileges will be required.

Update initramfs

Easy way: List all the plymouth themes installed:

sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -l

This will print a list of themes that are present in the default plymouth theme directory. To choose a one:

sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R THEME

Where THEME refers to one of the listed values from the executed command.

Alternative: To install this new theme:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/"path/to-your-plymouth.plymouth" 100

Remember to replace "path/to-your-plymouth.plymouth" with the corresponding file with extension .plymouth. Change the paths in the above command correspondingly, if the Plymouth Theme directory is not /usr/share/plymouth/themes/.

Run these commands to choose among the installed themes:

sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth

Then choose the index against the name of the newly copied theme. Then run:

sudo update-initramfs -u

Done.

Acknowledgments

• Amazing blogs by Charlie Brej on Creating Plymouth themes. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
• Mario sprites by Kevin Huff at [email protected]

No copyright infringement intended.

Mario is owned by Nintendo.

Mr. Robot is owned by USA Network.