How do I add a boot animation with splashy

LinuxPatriot · 2014-05-18 04:09:29

Hello today i was looking at my beloved arch linux boot up (for the brief moment it does cause its so fast) and i thought why not give my arch linux a boot animation so i went to the arch wiki and read the page but then it said the page was out of date because of the recent update to systemd for example i cant find /etc/rc.conf/. Any help would be greatly appreciated

PS: is this even possible because i dual boot arch and windows 7

Last edited by LinuxPatriot (2014-05-18 04:44:07)

ooo · 2014-05-18 04:48:08

according to comments in splashy-full and splashy AUR packages, there are no systemd services written yet, so unless you are up for the task it might be impossible to make it work on your arch system.

most largest distributions that ship with splash screen on default, use plymouth, so you might want to look into that instead. the wiki page recommends using plymouth-git package, but according to AUR comments it may be currently broken, so you might have better success with the plymouth (non -git) package

dual booting doesn't matter in this case. whatever boot splash you use will only show up after you've selected to boot to linux from your bootloader

WonderWoofy · 2014-05-18 04:53:42

I think the most active plymouth AUR package maintainer is padfoot. Recently he took over the plymouth and plymouth-git packages. So those should both be in working order now.

LinuxPatriot · 2014-05-18 04:58:50

so should i wait till these are reported as working?

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ooo · 2014-05-18 05:05:03

WonderWoofy wrote:

I think the most active plymouth AUR package maintainer is padfoot. Recently he took over the plymouth and plymouth-git packages. So those should both be in working order now.

okay I thoutght the comment on plymouth-git from him was about upstream git being broken, and since there hasn't been any major activity upstream I thought that would probably still be the case.

@LinuxPatriot: If you really want bootsplash, plymouth is probably the best choice. I'd go with the plymouth-git package first, but if it doesn't work plymouth (non -git version) should work just fine too

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LinuxPatriot · 2014-05-18 05:16:09

well im tired im going to bed ill try it tomorow thx for the help

LinuxPatriot · 2014-05-19 00:53:49

i think ill just wait till these packages are reported stable it also seems Plymouth is under heavy development so until then should i just say this is Solved?

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ANOKNUSA · 2014-05-19 03:47:40

LinuxPatriot wrote:

i think ill just wait till these packages are reported stable it also seems Plymouth is under heavy development so until then should i just say this is Solved?

To be fair, Plymouth has been "under heavy development" for about five years. I haven't used it in a long time, but I've never had any problems with it myself.

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#1 2014-05-18 04:09:29

How do I add a boot animation with splashy

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