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Install Zorin Splash Screen Manager On Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal”

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http://www.n00bsonubuntu.net – 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. When the plymouth theme is installed click on the Change Default Theme and select the plymouth you want to use and click on the Open button followed by clicking on OK and wait until the plymouth theme is set as default. To see if the theme is installed and working… (HowTos)

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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.

Plymouth splash screen is the animated screen you see after the grub (or grub2) menu in many popular Linux distros. And since the plymouth screen is a cool thing to play around, many linux users have created their own plymouth artworks.

Kubuntu Plymouth Theme 21 weeks 3 days ago

For those of you who aren't overly impressed with the dirty grey/blue look of the plymouth theme in kubuntu. I have made it more blue in line with the kde look. You can download the 2 files from the following link & copy them to /lib/plymouth/themes/kubuntu-logo.

My boot splash screen was fine with the open source drivers. I installed fglrx, rebooted, and it seems plymouth is using the ubuntu text theme.

This seems to be my problemL Why does Plymouth boot in fallback text mode?

However, both my boot and shutdown use the text theme. I tried

sudo update-initramfs -c -k all

with no luck :-/

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).

you install from aur plymouth and you set a default plymouth and you rebuild the initramfs with yours changes to mkinitcpio.conf and plymouth theme selected??

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Plymouth Manager is a GUI tool to manage the plymouth splash screen at Ubuntu start-up and shutdown. Ubuntu has few plymouth themes in its official repository, and by default doesn’t have a plymouth manger installation. Here is how to install latest plymouth manager and plenty of plymouth themes from an untrusted PPA.