Sunday, November 7, 2010

How to change Plymouth Theme OR How to change Boot theme in Fedora ?

In fedora, the themes which we see at the boot is controlled by plymouth. Here is a step by step tutorial for changing the boot theme:

Step 1: go to the terminal and run (under su or sudo)
$yum install plymouth-plugin* plymouth-theme*

Step 2: Now we got some extra themes, lets check out which one we got:
$ ls -1 /usr/share/plymouth/themes/
charge
details
fade-in
script
solar
spinfinity
text

Step 3: Time to activate one of them (I like solar)
$plymouth-set-default-theme solar

Step 4: After setting the default theme, we will have to update the initrd by:
$/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd

This will take a little time. After this , reboot and see the difference.

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