plymouth-themes

This is a repository for making and consolidating plymouth themes primarily for use on the Rasbperry Pi

Installing Plymouth on Raspbian Jessie Lite:

Plymouth should already be installed on the full Raspbian, but if you're using Raspian Lite then you'll need to go through the following steps to enable it:

sudo apt-get install plymouth plymouth-themes

Install Raspberry Pi Foundation Pixel splash

sudo apt-get install pix-plym-splash

Enable in /boot/cmdline.txt

add quiet splash plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles on the same line

and remove plymouth.enable=0 if you're using retropie

Using Plymouth

List Themes:

plymouth-set-default-theme --list

Set Default Theme:

sudo plymouth-set-default-theme yourtheme

Test Theme:

sudo plymouthd
sudo plymouth --show-splash
sudo plymouth quit 

If you want a little more debugging while testing:

sudo plymouthd --debug --debug-file=/tmp/plymouth-debug-out ; sudo plymouth --show-splash ; for ((I=0;I<10;I++)); do sleep 1 ; sudo plymouth --update=event$I ; done ;sudo  plymouth --quit

Adding a new theme

Add your new themes to:

/usr/share/plymouth/themes/

Ubuntu:

Ubuntu doesn't use plymouth-set-default-theme, but you can use the commands to add a new plymouth theme.

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/new-theme/new-theme.plymouth 100
sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth
sudo update-initramfs -u