Caution: Plymouth startup screen might not be able to customize described on the left by the environment. Probably, you can confirm it in the state of the default startup screen.
First, for making the Moe Plymouth theme installation easier,
from the Synaptic Package Manager, find “galternatives” and install it.
This “G Alternatives” is the GUI frontend of the Plymouth.
You can download moeplymouth_2.tar.gz as "plymouth theme with the Moe background picture" from
here. In the case of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - 17.04, you will be able to download the "moeplymouth_3.tar.gz" from here.
Put the uncompressed "moeplymouth_2" folder (with the files in it) into the "/lib/plymouth/themes" directory,
in the case of "moeplymouth_3" add to "/usr/share/plymouth/themes" directory.
[for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - 17.04]
Run the Alternatives Configurator in (Dash -> Alternatives Configurator), then choose the “default.plymouth” from the left pane.
By clicking the below "Add" button, previously-installed what was in the “/usr/share/plymouth/themes”, open the “moeplymouth_3” folder and then select and install the “moeplymouth_3.plymouth” file in it.
It will be appeared in the list. And then, it will be OK to check the “Choice” radio button on the left.
After the modification, in the terminal window, type:
$ sudo update-initramfs -u -k all
Apply it so that the modification is done. Then reboot and check if it is OK.
[for Ubuntu 14.04 - 15.10]
In the state of “moeplymouth_2” folder into the “/lib/plymouth/themes” directory.
Open Terminal and run the commands below:
$ sudo update-alternatives --install /lib/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /lib/plymouth/themes/moeplymouth_2/moeplymouth_2.plymouth 100
$ sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth
Since the list that contains the selected candidate of Plymouth theme is displayed, you will select the appropriate number. In this example, press the Enter key to enter a '1'.
After the modification, in the terminal window, type:
$ sudo update-initramfs -u -k all
Apply it so that the modification is done. Then reboot and check if it is OK.
If you can get the Plymouth screen in full color by the procedure described above "Step 2." and "Step 3.",
you will be able to introduce the Plymouth theme “with the background picture”.
You can download moeplymouth_2.tar.gz as “plymouth theme with the Moe background picture” from
here.
How to install it, refer to "Step 2".
“moeplymouth_(2/3)” which installed at "Step 4." makes you available to replace
the current background picture with your favorite Moe one.
Save the wallpaper you would like to replace as PNG format in GIMP or another program,
and change its file name to “moebuntu_bg.png”, then replace the original background picture with it.
If you replaced the picture file after setting “moeplymouth_(2/3)” with G Alternative,
in the Terminal, you need to:
$ sudo update-initramfs -u -k all
type the command above and press enter.
At "Step 2. Install the basic type of the Moe Plymouth theme,"
your screen goes 16 colors and in a low resolution with the installed “moeplymouth_1”,
if your graphic card is of the Nvidia or ATI, you may be able to get a high resolution, full-color graphics by the technique below.
Edit these two files below (make BACKUPs in case something go wrong!):
/etc/default/grub
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf
Edit /etc/default/grub
First, in the Terminal, type:
$ sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
and open the file for editing.
Next,
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
find the line above and overwrite as:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash video=vesafb vga=0x318"
then save it.
640x480 | 800x600 | 1024x768 | 1280x1024 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
256 | 0x301 | 0x303 | 0x305 | 0x307 |
32k | 0x310 | 0x313 | 0x316 | 0x319 |
64k | 0x311 | 0x314 | 0x317 | 0x31A |
16M | 0x312 | 0x315 | 0x318 | 0x31B |
$ sudo update-grub
Update the “grub” with the command above.
Edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf
Again, in the Terminal, type:
$ sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf
and open the file for editing.
Next,
blacklist vesafb
find the line above,br>
#blacklist vesafb
as above, add “#” at the beginning of the line for commenting out the line then save it.
Finally, it is done by adding the following two commands below.
$ echo FRAMEBUFFER=y | sudo tee /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash
$ sudo update-initramfs -u -k all
if worked out, after you restart the computer, full color splash screen is displayed.