How To Create Simple Plymouth Theme

This tutorial will show you have to create simple plymouth theme for Ubuntu 10.04 or other Linux distribution that uses plymouth.

Just one note, this theme in wallpaper only. There is no animations.




Open terminal and type:

sudo mkdir /lib/plymouth/themes/simple

Find a wallpaper that you wan't to use. Make sure that wallpaper is PNG (.png) and name of wallpaper is wallpaper.png



Copy wallpaper to: /lib/plymouth/themes/simple/ (you need to be root to paste files in that folder).

Now in terminal type:

sudo gedit /lib/plymouth/themes/simple/simple.plymouth

and in gedit paste:

[Plymouth Theme]
Name=Simple
Description=Wallpaper only
ModuleName=script
[script]
ImageDir=/lib/plymouth/themes/simple
ScriptFile=/lib/plymouth/themes/simple/simple.script

Save it and close.

Run:

sudo gedit /lib/plymouth/themes/simple/simple.script

and in gedit paste:

wallpaper_image = Image(“wallpaper.png”);
screen_width = Window.GetWidth();
screen_height = Window.GetHeight();
resized_wallpaper_image = wallpaper_image.Scale(screen_width,screen_height);
wallpaper_sprite = Sprite(resized_wallpaper_image);
wallpaper_sprite.SetZ(-100);

Save it and close.

Now run:

sudo update-alternatives --install /lib/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /lib/plymouth/themes/simple/simple.plymouth 100

and:

sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth

and select simple from list.

At end run:

sudo update-initramfs -u

And your done! Now when you restart you will see wallpaper as plymouth theme.