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Fedora 12. Plymouth cannot set default theme

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I really, really hate the new default plymouth theme in Fedora since 11, as such I'd rather use either Solar or Spinfinity as the default plymouth themes, however F12 for some reason keeps ignoring me when I set the default theme. I downloaded all necessary packages for this and for some reason unknown to me when I boot the computer the default theme still appears, unless I switch to a VT (press F1) and then back to the plymouth boot (ESC) does it change to the theme I selected, be it Solar or Spinfinity. The symlink in /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth is point to the right theme (i.e. /usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinfinity/spinfinity.plymouth), and yet it does not load at boot by default, do I have to remove the other "default" theme or what? (HowTos)

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Ok, running F18 and I wanted to change from the Fedora Balloon to something else so I installed the plymouth themes, then changed the default to solar.

plymouth-set-default-theme solar --rebuild-initrd

Well, it changed the Fedora Bubble to Hot Dog Man on boot, although when I restarted, it displayed the solar theme as it closed down.

Plymouth splash screen is the initial splash screen at boot-up.Ubuntu 10.04 uses Plymouth instead of xsplash to manage the fancy boot graphics.If you want something different,you can try following method to change the default Plymouth splash screen.

To download new plymouth themes go to this page. When you want to install a new plymouth theme start the Splash Screen Manager and and click on the Install button and go to the folder where you saved the downloaded file, select the theme and click on the Open button.

Hi, I've been running F12/rawhide for months, it's now looking very good, although I'm still getting a text boot rather than graphical.

I'm not sure if my config/method is correct now given the change from mkinitrd to dracut.

Here's what I have in /boot/grub/menu.lst

Hello, I have question about changing the default plymouth theme. The current theme has an Ubuntu text above 5 progressing dots. Is it possible to change that into Ubuntu logo, with color being progressed. "Consider the Fedora plymouth animation. Faded logo is colored as loading proceeds).

I have made a plymouth splash screen (its simple- it just displays a .png image) consisting of simple.plymouth, simple.script, simple.grub and wallpaper.png. Only, I cannot set it as default y editing the default.plymouth file (that errors) or through

sudo update-alternatives --set default.plymouth /lib/plymouth/themes/MYTHEME/simple.plymouth

it errors back at me saying no setting exists.

Silent version: Example for my hardware, you need to adapt it a little for yours # yum -y install mesa-dri-drivers xorg-x11-drv-evdev xorg-x11-drv-synaptics xorg-x11-drv-nouveau gnome-shell gnome-js-common gnome-panel network-manager-applet

# yum -y install alsa-firmware iwl5000-firmware alsa-plugins-pulseaudio xdg-user-dirs-gtk

# yum -y install plymouth-theme-charge # ln -sf /usr/share/plymouth

Plymouth Manager is a software written in python by an italian Ubuntu user that can help you in the configuration of your Plymouth.You can use this tool to change boot theme and resolution. (...)Read the rest of Plymouth Manager - GUI tool to change boot theme and resolution (59 words)

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