change plymouth boot splash image with your own (simple custom plugin)

[aditnsr]

Hi,

I made a very simple plymouth plugin, which is actually a modified spinfinity plugin,
and I thought I'd share with evryone here..

This is a simple plugin which loads your image as the background, strectched to fill
the screen, with a simple progress bar at the bottom, along the length of the screen,,
which is basically spinfinity plugin with your image as the background, but without
the fedora logo and the throbber

Note: before trying this plugin, make sure that plymouth graphical boot is enabled.
Take a look at this thread(by SendDerek) on how to do it.

For those of you using i386 platform can install this:

plymouth-plugin-spinfinity-0.6.0-0.2008.11.17.3.fc10.i386.rpm

su -
rpm -i plymouth-plugin-spinfinity-0.6.0-0.2008.11.17.3.fc10.i386.rpm

to select the plugin, do:

su -
plymouth-set-default-plugin spinfinity

to change the bakcground image:

(edit/overwrite /usr/share/plymouth/spinfinity/bg.png)
su -
/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd

for those with different arch can download the source and build it yourselves:

plymouth-0.6.0-0.2008.11.17.3.fc10.src.rpm

install the source and build the packages (I did this as root):

su -
rpm -i plymouth-0.6.0-0.2008.11.17.3.fc10.src.rpm
cd /root/rpmbuild/
rpmbuild -bb SPECS/plymouth.spec

install the modified spinfinity plugin (change the {arch} to yours):

su -
cd /root/rpmbuild/
rpm -i RPMS/{arch}/plymouth-plugin-spinfinity-0.6.0-0.2008.11.17.3.fc10.{arch}.rpm

and follow the steps to select that plugin and change the image as I described earlier above.

Notice that the image path is /usr/share/plymouth/spinfinity/bg.png

The image doesn't need to be of certain resolution/size, this plugin will attempt to scale it to fit your screen.
But of course you will want it to match your bootup/virt console screen resolution, so that it is less likely
to break because of the scaling/resizing.

feel free to modify further,,
take a look at the plugin.c files, that's where the magic happens

cheers

video capture of my boot screen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv5Bu8r1_aE

rpms:

plymouth-plugin-spinfinity-0.6.0-0.2008.11.17.3.fc10.i386.rpm
plymouth-0.6.0-0.2008.11.17.3.fc10.src.rpm


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UPDATE FOR F11 USERS:
for F11 users, install these 2 rpms:
plymouth-theme-spinfinity-0.7.0-0.2009.05.15.1.fc11.i586.rpm
plymouth-plugin-throbgress-0.7.0-0.2009.05.15.1.fc11.i586.rpm

modify or replace /usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinfinity/bg.png

and run:

plymouth-set-default-theme spinfinity
/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd

src.rpm @filefactory (I couldn't attach it here):
http://www.filefactory.com/file/ag9c...1_fc11_src_rpm
or @ifileit:
http://ifile.it/xoqyvec

there's a catch though, when the progress bar reach 90%, the bootscreen will end
prematurely as a result of a workaround I did, because on my system if I let the
progress bar reach the end the bootscreen will get stuck

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if you want the progress bar to reach the end, try these:
http://ifile.it/cqzhs3e/plymouth-0.7....fc11.i586.rpm
http://ifile.it/yrzevho/plymouth-the....fc11.i586.rpm
http://ifile.it/jq1soz8/plymouth-plu....fc11.i586.rpm

source:
http://ifile.it/anpdciv/plymouth-0.7...1.fc11.src.rpm

[Silpheed2K]

have any screenshots? I'm curious to know how this looks even though I don't intend on trying it.

[aditnsr]

I'll post screenshots later, perhaps tomorrow, gotta find a camera first, mine is broken

[aditnsr]

here is a video capture of my boot up, from grub selection screen to login screen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv5Bu8r1_aE

[johno12345]

Excellent, looks good...
Is it fairly straight forward to change the image?

[aditnsr]

yes, just replace/modify /usr/share/plymouth/spinfinity/bg.png
and run /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd afterward..

[johno12345]

Awesome,

This will be great for my myth based media centre in the living room...

will report back how i get on

[aditnsr]

explanation added:

Originally Posted by aditnsr

The image doesn't need to be of certain resolution/size, this plugin will attempt to scale it to fit your screen.
But of course you will want it to match your bootup/virt console screen resolution, so that it is less likely
to break because of the scaling/resizing.

[johno12345]

sorry its taken me a while to get back to you, tried it this morning.

works beautifully, now to design a bootscreen!

cheers

[johno12345]

well done a quick mock up screen for my mythtv box,
looks ok
if anyone wants to try it heres a link

[Simian Man]

Would this work if you have the fallback plymouth? By that I mean the simple triple bar at the bottom with no animated star.

[johno12345]

you would probably need to specify a screen mode in your grub setting, possibly though, worth a try

[aditnsr]

Originally Posted by johno12345

sorry its taken me a while to get back to you, tried it this morning.

works beautifully, now to design a bootscreen!

I'm glad you find it useful

Originally Posted by Simian Man

Would this work if you have the fallback plymouth? By that I mean the simple triple bar at the bottom with no animated star.

Hi, you should probably take a look at this thread first. When it works, then try this plugin

cheers

[Simian Man]

Originally Posted by aditnsr

Hi, you should probably take a look at this thread first. When it works, then try this plugin

Hey thanks for that link! I actually didn't know that it was possible to enjoy Plymouth outside of Intel cards. I will try your custom boot screen tutorial after I am tired of the pretty flames .

[~'j]

Hi,

i'd like to change the background of boot splash (i'm using spinfinity theme) but this seems no longer possible, i couldn't find bg.png like precised in this topic.
Is there an other way ? i'd just like to change the blue background color for something more desaturate.

Thanks for your help

'j