Comments on: Plymouth theming guide (part 4)

By: verona007

verona007 — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:32:53 +0000

Hy! I am reworked your dandelion theme. Fixed the progress bar, and updated, plus I added a pretty good wallpaper to this. Downloadable:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/1atl68l1ztjt7lc/dandelion.tar.gz

I am amused from this work, you are awesome!!! Thanks!

By: Bigby

Bigby — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:43:05 +0000

Thanks a lot! Hoping to delve into this plymouth business once I get the free time. Again, much appreciated.

By: Frankynov

Frankynov — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:08:48 +0000

Okay, my apologize : here is the correct link

http://www.scratiphone.com/Documents/vizta-edited.zip

By: Bigby

Bigby — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:14:17 +0000

Hey, Francois:

Trying to get this working in Ubuntu myself; ran

- sudo update-alternatives –install /lib/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /lib/plymouth/themes/vizta/vizta.plymouth 100

so it appears in the list of available themes. However, it leaves the screen blank, even after I rebuild initramfs. Any tips from either of you guys?

And great work, Charlie! It’s astounding how little info there is on Plymouth in the Ubuntu community; very disappointing.

P.S: Francois, the link to your modified script is broken.
Thanks!

By: Frankynov

Frankynov — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:20:31 +0000

Hi !

Sure, there is the full modified version (including the Ubuntu logo)

http://www.scratiphone.com/Documents/vizta edited.zip

Best regards,

François

By: marcioabr

marcioabr — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:46:10 +0000

Hi, frankynov,

I have the same problem with vizta script, where exacly add (period = (perdiod * 100.0) / 20.0;) ? Could you give me a link to your modified script?
Thanks!

Hello Charlie Brej! Great work man!
Thanks!

Marcioabr

By: frankynov

frankynov — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:24:49 +0000

Thank you !

I’ve also managed to find some information on the web.

At the middle of the bottom, I added this :

period = (perdiod * 100.0) / 20.0;

And it slowed down the animation :)

I also made a custom variation of your theme, here is a quick video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EYtxUAWDjw

Thanks again for those great pieces of work !

By: Charlie Brej

Charlie Brej — Wed, 05 May 2010 09:57:28 +0000

In the “refresh” function, look for what is ahppening to “inc”. That is a value between 0 and 1 showing you where in the boot it is. 0-0.8 it moves blobs. 0.8-0.9 it fades them out. 0.9-1 solid logo. Try changing those values.

By: frankynov

frankynov — Tue, 04 May 2010 22:52:37 +0000

Great work !!
I’m trying the Vizta theme with ubuntu 10.04.
It shows up but it’s waaaay too slow, the GDM show before the end of the animation :/

Is it possible to decrease the time of the animation in the script file ?

Thank you !

Best regards,

François

By: Charlie Brej

Charlie Brej — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:08:57 +0000

You need to update your initrd. In Fedora that is done by adding “–rebuild-initrd” to the plymouth-set-default-theme command.
If you isnatlled from git, you will have to manually run:
dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)