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burafino

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How to change/configure plymouth?

Hello!

I managed to install Plymouth from kdemod and get it working perfectly well.
I even changed the Chakra logo to Arch logo (although I had to leave the old name - chakra-logo.png).
But I cannot figure out how to change the background. Google didn't help at all. The only thing i found was a patch for the Fedora version. The themes don't have any reference neither to the logo image nor to the background.
Does anybody know how and where to configure how Plymouth behaves?

Many thanks!

lagagnon

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Re: How to change/configure plymouth?

Did you read the wiki?: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Plymouth

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burafino

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Re: How to change/configure plymouth?

I did. It says nothing about changing the background...

PirateJonno

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Re: How to change/configure plymouth?

some themes let you set the background color with a ./configure option, but others are hard coded i think. look for other images by doing pacman -Ql plymouth | grep png

Last edited by PirateJonno (2009-12-28 13:13:50)

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burafino

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Re: How to change/configure plymouth?

some themes let you set the background color with a ./configure option, but others are hard coded i think.

Thanks for the tip. Do you know how and where exactly to pass this option?
I would be happy to fiddle with the code if i knew where to look for it.
I just want to remove the background and have a black screen with the Arch logo on it. Nothing fancy.

look for other images by doing pacman -Ql plymouth | grep png

I have done this before. Found nothing I could change this way.

Thanks anyway!

PirateJonno

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Re: How to change/configure plymouth?

Thanks for the tip. Do you know how and where exactly to pass this option?

No problem, you'll have to use ABS/AUR and add these options to the configure line:
--with-background-color=0x123456
or
--with-background-start-color-stop=0x123456
--with-background-end-color-stop=0x123456

where you can replace 123456 with any hex color name. the first one gives you a solid color (i think), and the last 2 give you a gradient.

I just want to remove the background and have a black screen with the Arch logo on it. Nothing fancy.

in that case just set --with-background-color=0x000000

I have done this before. Found nothing I could change this way.

Ok, well the plymouth trunk has some (e.g. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/plymouth/tree/themes/solar) so while you're building it you might want to check those out.

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burafino

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Re: How to change/configure plymouth?

Thanks! Will try that.