Plymouth - Changing start up Theme

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boxrick
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Plymouth - Changing start up Theme

Post by boxrick » 2012/07/18 16:51:43

I am attempting to get a different theme on load of CentOS 6. I attempted the below but it always sticks to the standard theme.

plymouth-set-default-theme --list
sudo plymouth-set-default-theme THEME --rebuild-initrd

In a nutshell any particular reasons this won't work and how can I resolve it ?

Thanks

boxrick
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Re: Plymouth - Changing start up Theme

Post by boxrick » 2012/07/19 13:37:53

No further feedback on this issue?

I tried changing the default theme without much luck - appears to be /usr/share/Plymouth/themes/text

There are some handy steps on

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/quick-tipplymouth-themes-in-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx.html

But there are slight differences between Ubuntu and CentOS, but even taking into account the placement of the files it doesn't seem to do a whole lot.

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Plymouth - Changing start up Theme

Post by tpaul » 2012/07/19 14:02:04

I ran into this issue a while back and reached out to the plymouth mailing list in February and just recently got a response but I have not had time to try their suggestion. I pretty much abandoned trying to change the theme in March.

Hope this might help you out, maybe you can try the plymouth mailing list also.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/plymouth/2012-June/000656.html

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Re: Plymouth - Changing start up Theme

Post by boxrick » 2012/07/19 14:39:19

I did try that since I did come across it, but essentially it is just listing the boot directory....

Seems odd how such a simple thing is made so difficult =(

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Re: Plymouth - Changing start up Theme

Post by boxrick » 2012/07/19 20:29:40

From the looks of things it always defaults to the "text" plymouth. I suspect this is either something to do with the way it is configured or the drivers. If I replace "text" with something else and rebuild it always seems to fail.

My aim of this is to:

Have a custom splash screen - ie A box with some branding on it
& prevent the text output being seen.

Could someone possibly give a hand getting the Plymouth "text" theme modified to have some custom branding on? The issue with simply replacing it is in the module .so component which I do not know how to create, rebuilding guides are all on Ubuntu which is obviously no good in this case.

boxrick
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Re: Plymouth - Changing start up Theme

Post by boxrick » 2012/08/31 15:54:46

Any one have any updates or ideas on this issue?

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Re: Plymouth - Changing start up Theme

Post by tlimbert » 2014/02/05 06:39:59

http://www.tejasbarot.com/2009/01/19/en ... -plymouth/

You have to add a vga parameter to the grub.conf.

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Re: Plymouth - Changing start up Theme

Post by vjpiyush » 2014/09/19 09:38:47

I am also facing the same issue add the vga=792 , is not working , its shows the list of vga number , which one to use and how to ensure whether it will work will all the display , as ours is going be installed by customer , we cannot be sure what all vga number will be supported.

how to get rid of this. Any idea?

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