What is the Plymouth package?

Plymouth is a free bootsplash for Linux supporting animations using Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) and KMS driver. It gets packed into the initrd. Besides eye-candy, Plymouth also handles user interaction during boot.

What is Debian Plymouth?

Plymouth presents a graphic animation (also known as a bootsplash) while the system boots. It provides eye-candy and a more professional presentation for scenarios where the default high-information text output might be undesirable.

What is Plymouth Fedora?

Plymouth is the graphical boot up system debuting with Fedora 10. The graphical boot splash screen that comes with Plymouth requires kernel mode setting drivers to work best. There are not kernel modesetting drivers available for all hardware yet.

How do I turn off Plymouth?

Disabling the Plymouth Boot Screen in Ubuntu 20.04

1. Edit grub config. In your editor of choice, open the /etc/default/grub file with sudo .
2. Update grub. In order to apply the config changes to the grub bootloader, run the following command: sudo update-grub.
3. Uninstall plymouth.
4. Remove lingering config directories.

How do you set a Plymouth theme?

Edit the configuration files.

1. Set up theme information file. gedit my-theme.plymouth.
2. Start-up terminal color. ( Optional) gedit my-theme.grub.
3. The script file to apply theme changes gedit my-theme.script. There is many different aspects to this file that you can change to customize your plymouth boot theme.

What is Plymouth Ubuntu?

Plymouth is the application which provides the graphical “splash” screen when booting and shutting down an Ubuntu system. Note that on Ubuntu, Plymouth is considered to be the “owner” of the console device (/dev/console) so no application should attempt to modify terminal attributes for this device at boot or shutdown.

How do you use Plymouth themes?

How do you make a Plymouth theme?

Installation

1. Select the default theme. sudo update-alternatives –config default.plymouth And select the number for your theme (I can’t say this for sure but if the theme you want is under 0 for the auto mode, then I would select that as I think it boots in faster than manual)
2. Update the initramfs image.

How do you use Plymouth?

Enabling Debugging

1. Power on system.
2. Hold down the CONTROL key until the Grub boot menu appears.
3. Type “e” to edit the default kernel command-line.
4. Use the arrow keys to go to the end of the line which starts “linux /boot/vmlinuz …”.
5. Add a space character, followed by “plymouth:debug”.
6. Type CONTROL+x to boot.

What is splash screen Linux?

A splash screen is nothing but the picture that’s gets displayed in the background while booting the Linux operating system. You might be knowing that Grub (GRand Unified Bootloader) is the commonly used famous bootloader among major Linux distributions.