Proxzima for Plymouth

A techno Plymouth theme with crazy ass animation.

Boot Screen	Shutdown Screen

Installation

AUR

For Arch users, the theme is available from the AUR here.

1. Install it with your favorite AUR helper: paru proxzima-plymouth-git

2. Follow steps 3. and 4. given below.

Manually

Dependencies

• plymouth

Note

plymouth-x11 is required to preview the theme without rebooting.

1. Clone this repo or download the .zip

$ git clone https://github.com/PROxZIMA/proxzima-plymouth.git
$ cd proxzima-plymouth

2. Copy the whole proxzima directory to plymouth themes

$ sudo cp -r proxzima /usr/share/plymouth/themes

3. Follow the steps based on your distribution

   • Arch based distros

   # check if theme exist in dir
   sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -l
   
   # optionally you can test the theme by running the script given in repo (plymouth-x11 required)
   sudo ./preview.sh 13
   
   # now set the theme (proxzima, in this case) and rebuilt the initrd
   sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R proxzima
   

   • Debian(Ubuntu, Kubuntu) based distros

   # install the new theme (proxzima, in this case)
   sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/proxzima/proxzima.plymouth 100
   
   # select the theme number and press enter to apply
   sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth
   
   # update initramfs
   sudo update-initramfs -u
   

4. Reboot and voila

Configuration

If you want to use the shutdown animation as boot screen then do the following changes in the proxzima.script file.

- boot = 196;
+ boot = 97;

-   flyingman_image[i] = Image("boot-" + i + ".png");
+   flyingman_image[i] = Image("shut-" + i + ".png");

Potential problems and solutions

Never had one but still refer to the following articles.

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/plymouth
• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Plymouth

For scripting: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth/Scripts/

Credits

• Roger Truttmann: The creator of the animation 🙌. Follow him on Twitter, Github and Lottiefiles.
• Archcraft: The main logo is designed by @adi1090x.
• showplymouth.sh: Made by @adi1090x.

License

GPLv3 License.