Description

Bootsplash theme

Installation & configuration

Automatic method:

If you want to use automatic gui manager look at: bootsplash-manager

$ pacman -Sy bootsplash-manager
...
$ pacman -S bootsplash-theme-sakura-git
...
$ bootsplash-manager -l
Found 4 themes:
arch
manjaro
manjaro-glitch
sakura
$ sudo bootsplash-manager -s sakura
$ sudo bootsplash-manager --status
Bootsplash status:
[ ok ] Bootsplash is enabled, current theme: sakura
[ ok ] Current kernel supports bootsplash
[ ok ] current theme is in hooks list
[ ok ] No 'quiet' option

Manual installation:

 $ git clone https://github.com/LinAnsty/bootsplash-theme-sakura
 $ cd bootsplash-theme-sakura`
 $ makepkg -Csri

Append bootsplash-theme-sakura hook in the end of HOOKS string of /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

Add bootsplash.bootfile=bootsplash-themes/sakura/bootsplash into GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX string of /etc/default/grub

Run sudo mkinitcpio -P && sudo update-grub to update initial ram disk and grub configuration

Some hints

The end result may vary on different configurations. For instance, it may be a good idea to add intel_agp i915 to MODULES section of mkinitcpio.conf in case of Intel-based system, use modesetting kernel options, etc. The best result is achieved with the use of direct kernel booting (w/o any bootloader, using just linux efistub). A similar command will do the trick:

$ efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sda -p 1 -L "Manjaro Linux 5.4" \
-l /vmlinuz-5.4-x86_64 -u \
'ro initrd=\intel-ucode.img initrd=\initramfs-5.4-x86_64.img \
bootsplash.bootfile=bootsplash-themes/sakura/bootsplash \
<other options like cryptdevice, root, resume etc>' -v

Making sutable gif for boot screen

All frames in gif should be the same size to check this run

$ identify your_logo.gif

Convert gif to images

convert -coalesce source.gif target.png

convert images to gif

convert -resize 70% -delay 7 -loop 0 `ls -v *.png` logo.gif

Simple method:

Convert source gif 1920x1080, choosing only center blocks of 300x300. With this method all blobs of logo.gif already the same lengthh and size

convert your_image.gif -gravity Center -crop 300x300+0 logo.gif

Then edit bootsplash-sakura.sh

Original picture taken from kde store

https://store.kde.org/p/1433200

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