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1uk

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Registered: 2013-06-09

Posts: 30

Boot Animation, How?

Hello,
I want to have some fancy animation while booting.
Is this possible?

I've found that you can customize refind and have some background wallpaper. But what about ascii animations or gif or mp4 or something really fancy.

Can you give me resources to read?

My dream would be a boot without seeing anything else than a super neat animation. From pressing the power button to booting into window manager.

Thanks for your help! @you!
1uk

graysky

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Registered: 2008-12-01

Posts: 10,719

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Re: Boot Animation, How?

Does your system even show anything between grub and login manager as-is?

% systemd-analyze blame
           810ms systemd-journal-flush.service
           380ms psd-resync.service
           309ms mnt-data.mount
           238ms netctl@lxcbridge.service
           181ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-data.service
           167ms var-cache.mount
           144ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-cache.service
           108ms dev-sda3.device
            87ms ufw.service
            61ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
            36ms psd.service
            34ms udisks2.service
            27ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
            26ms systemd-journald.service
            24ms systemd-modules-load.service
            23ms systemd-udevd.service
            22ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-lxc.service
            20ms polkit.service
            20ms lm_sensors.service
            19ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-boot.service
            18ms systemd-update-utmp.service
            17ms systemd-resolved.service
            15ms alsa-restore.service
            15ms gpm.service
            15ms systemd-user-sessions.service
            13ms systemd-timesyncd.service
             8ms user@1000.service
             8ms upower.service
             8ms dev-hugepages.mount
             7ms tmp.mount
             7ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
             6ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
             5ms systemd-remount-fs.service
             5ms systemd-logind.service

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Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,415

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Re: Boot Animation, How?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Plymouth

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0x29a

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Registered: 2012-09-28

Posts: 101

Re: Boot Animation, How?

Also:
plymouth-themes-solar << look for this one to see how it's scripted. Maybe you'll come up with something cool.