# plymouth-themes
A big collection of plymouth themes, ported from *android bootanimation* from [here](https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/themes/alienware-t3721978). ![gif](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adi1090x/files/master/plymouth-themes/previews/53.gif) ### What is plymouth? [Plymouth](http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth) is a project from Fedora and now listed among the [freedesktop.org's official resources](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/#graphicsdriverswindowsystemsandsupportinglibraries) providing a flicker-free graphical boot process. It relies on [kernel mode setting](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_mode_setting) (KMS) to set the native resolution of the display as early as possible, then provides an eye-candy splash screen leading all the way up to the login manager. ### How to set it up? follow [this](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/plymouth) *archwiki* article to setup plymouth in *archlinux* or any other distro. ### How to get these theme? **Download :** you can download individual themes via link below - **Clone :** or you can clone this repository if you want - ```bash git clone https://github.com/adi1090x/plymouth-themes.git ``` **AUR :** If you're `archlinux`, you can install these [themes](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=adi1090x) individually with an `AUR helper like yay` ```bash yay -S plymouth-theme-NAME-git ``` > Remember to replace the underscore(\_) with an hyphen(-) in theme's NAME. ### How to use these theme? follow the step below (I'm using **archlinux** here)- ```bash # packages needed - plymouth, plymouth-x11, plymouth-plugin-script(fedora) # after downloading or cloning themes, copy the selected theme in plymouth theme dir sudo cp -r angular /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ # check if theme exist in dir sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -l # now set the theme (angular, in this case) and rebuilt the initrd sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R angular # optionally you can test theme by running the script given in repo (plymouth-x11 required) sudo ./showplymouth.sh 20 ``` ### Previews Here is an [Album](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/p/44845).