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Plymouth
Plymouth is a software that provides a better graphical boot process. It can change the native resolution early in the boot process and display splash screens.
Setup
On most Linux distributions LightDM can be installed with the
plymouth package.
Afterward the kernel options need to be changed.
On Arch Linux systems this can be done by editing the file located at
/boot/loader/entries/arch.conf.
In the options line append quiet if you want to use the quiet-mode and splash if you want to add
a splash screen.
If the splash screen option was selected set a default theme. A more detailed guide on this is available in another section.
plymouth-set-default-theme bgrt
Alternatively another theme than fade-in can be set.
The listing of installed themes is featured in a latter section.
Then inside the file /etc/mkinitcpio.conf add the hook under the HOOKS section.
Add plymouth after systemd (if available) and before encrypt and lvm2 (if available.)
Finally, regenerate the initial ramdisk as described in the mkinitcpio entry. For this run the following command.
mkinitcpio -p linux
Usage
This section addresses the location and
List, Install and Set Themes
A list of installed themes can be listed by running the following.
plymouth-set-default-theme --list
One of the listed themes can then be installed like the following command does.
<theme> needs to be replaced with a theme that is included in the listed themes (like fade-in).
plymouth-set-default-theme <theme>
If this command is run the initramfs needs to be rebuild. A command that includes the rebuilding process is the following.
plymouth-set-default-theme -R <theme>
Other themes can be found in online sources like the AUR or websites like Gnome-Look.org.
The following are recommended themes.
- Arch10 is a theme for Arch Linux similar to the boot splash screen of Windows 10.