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How do I run a custom animated bootscreen?

I want to create a new splash theme for Ubuntu 11.10 using a volcano theme, so when it boots the volcano erupts with lava (same for shutdown). Now I have my image (png) but obviously it does not animate. I looked at the solar plymouth theme and I was thinking since the animation is there I can check it but no luck.

Is there a tool or a script I need to use to animate my volcano?

The image looks like this:

I've already got the animated image, I'm just wondering how I can make it run at startup.

How can I disable the purple splash screen at boot?

How can I disable the purple "Ubuntu" splash screen that displays at boot before the login screen has loaded? I'd prefer to just see plain text scroll by.

Whats is the importance of Plymouth?

I accidentaly did a command to delete Plymouth from my ubuntu 15.04:

sudo apt-get remove plymouth

and after this my login screen didn't appear any more. After GRUB menu the screen became black and nothing seems to happen. I installed Ubuntu again but the question remains on my mind: What is Plymouth and why it crashed my system?

How can I change the purple background color of Ubuntu plymouth boot screen?

I'd like to change the background color of the purple plymouth boot splash to another color, how can I do this?

How to fix plymouth (splash screen) in all Ubuntu releases!

How to fix black or broken plymouth (splash screen) after installation of nvidia proprietary drivers in Ubuntu (it happens usually in all Ubuntu releases)? It's no matter what version of nvidia drivers I install bug is always present.

Boot screen in low graphics/text mode

My ubuntu boot screen shows up in a strange low resolution, almost text mode, instead the usual and sleek white "ubuntu" over dark background. It's not a big issue because when GDM loads everything becomes ok, but If there's an easy way to fix it I would like to give it a try.

How To Get Plymouth To Display Boot Messages When Booting?

I would like to know how to create a splash for Ubuntu Maverick with boot messages being displayed when I boot as well as a progress bar and a spinning logo.

Or, if possible, how to edit a splash which already has a spinning logo and a progress bar, and add boot messages to it.

This is the theme I would like to edit:

• Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 Plymouth Splash

and I would like something like this:

or this, which is the exact splash I want to create:

i was able to find this website it has a lot of usefull information but am havin a hard time understanding some of it. havent done any scripting before!

Create your own splash screen with scrolling boot messages

Plymouth Scripting

and this is another website wich can help with scripting

this is the script for the progress bar in the splash:

    #----------------------------------------- Progress Bar --------------------------------

    progress_box.image = Image("progress_box.png");
    progress_box.sprite = Sprite(progress_box.image);

    progress_box.x = Window.GetX() + Window.GetWidth() / 2 - progress_box.image.GetWidth() / 2;
    progress_box.y = Window.GetY() + Window.GetHeight() * 0.65 - progress_box.image.GetHeight() / 2;
    progress_box.sprite.SetPosition(progress_box.x, progress_box.y, 0);

    progress_bar.original_image = Image("progress_bar.png");
    progress_bar.sprite = Sprite();

    progress_bar.x = Window.GetX() + Window.GetWidth()  / 2 -        progress_bar.original_image.GetWidth() / 2;
    progress_bar.y = Window.GetY() + Window.GetHeight() * 0.65  - progress_box.image.GetHeight() / 2 + (progress_box.image.GetHeight() - progress_bar.original_image.GetHeight()) / 2;
    progress_bar.sprite.SetPosition(progress_bar.x, progress_bar.y, 1);

    fun progress_callback (duration, progress)
      {
        if (progress_bar.image.GetWidth () != Math.Int (progress_bar.original_image.GetWidth () * progress))
          {
# add the * 3 to multiply the speed of the progress bar by 3
            progress_bar.image = progress_bar.original_image.Scale(progress_bar.original_image.GetWidth(progress_bar.original_image) * progress * 3, progress_bar.original_image.GetHeight());
            progress_bar.sprite.SetImage (progress_bar.image);
          }
      }

    Plymouth.SetBootProgressFunction(progress_callback);

OK so I did a lot more searching and I was able to learn a bit more about Plymouth.

these are the sites that I found useful. Plymouth theming guide There are four parts to that article you have to read through them to get the gist of what we are doing. (I was comparing their script with the script for my splash to understand what is what, I recommend doing that if anyone is to follow in my footsteps.) Plymouth scripting Ok this link has 2 pages had to go through them to understand what to do. Turns out they were after the same thing I was, which is to direct boot messages to the Plymouth splash where i already have a spinning logo, background, progress bar.

So i had to edit my /lib/lsb/init-functions file and make it so that it would send the boot error/success,etc messages to Plymouth by adding this paragraph

# SEND MESSAGES TO PLYMOUTH
if [ -x /bin/plymouth ] && pidof plymouthd >/dev/null
then
    plymouth_send() {
        [ "$1" = '-n' ] && { # add a flag '>' for lines that will be extended
            shift
            /bin/plymouth message --text=">$*" || true
            return
        }
        [ "$1" = '-w' ] && { # add "warning" formatting
            shift
            /bin/plymouth update --status="warning" || true
            /bin/plymouth message --text="$*" || true
            /bin/plymouth update --status="normal" || true
            return
        }
        [ "$1" = '-f' ] && { # add "failed" formatting
            shift
            /bin/plymouth update --status="failed" || true
            /bin/plymouth message --text="$*" || true
            /bin/plymouth update --status="normal" || true
            return
        }
        /bin/plymouth message --text="$*" || true
    }
else
    plymouth_send() { :; }
fi

# int log_begin_message (char *message)
log_begin_msg () {
    if [ -z "${1:-}" ]; then
        return 1
    fi
    echo -n "$@"
}

As well as adding

   # Only do the fancy stuff if we have an appropriate terminal
    # and if /usr is already mounted
    if log_use_fancy_output; then
        RED=`$TPUT setaf 1`
        YELLOW=`$TPUT setaf 3`
        NORMAL=`$TPUT op`
    else
        RED=''
        YELLOW=''
        NORMAL=''
    fi

    if [ $1 -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "."
        plymouth_send "."
    elif [ $1 -eq 255 ]; then
        /bin/echo -e " ${YELLOW}(warning).${NORMAL}"
        plymouth_send -w " (warning)."
    else
        /bin/echo -e " ${RED}failed!${NORMAL}"
        plymouth_send -f " failed!"
    fi
    log_end_msg_post "$@"
    return $retval
}

log_action_msg () {
    echo "$@."
    plymouth_send "$@."
}

log_action_begin_msg () {
    echo -n "$@..."
    plymouth_send -n "$@..."
}

log_action_cont_msg () {
    echo -n "$@..."
    plymouth_send -n "$@..."
}

log_action_end_msg () {
    log_action_end_msg_pre "$@"
    if [ -z "${2:-}" ]; then
        end="."
    else
        end=" ($2)."
    fi

    if [ $1 -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "done${end}"
        plymouth_send "done${end}"
    else
        if log_use_fancy_output; then
            RED=`$TPUT setaf 1`
            NORMAL=`$TPUT op`
            /bin/echo -e "${RED}failed${end}${NORMAL}"
        else
            echo "failed${end}"
            plymouth_send -f "failed${end}"
        fi
    fi
    log_action_end_msg_post "$@"
}

So far I wasn't able to get the messages through to Plymouth, but I did get a better understanding of how Plymouth scripting works!

I don't know what else am supposed to do to make it work! hoping somebody here can help me out

Ohh and here is my version of the script for the Splash I am working on.

# INT2MIL-Ubuntu-10.10-Eng splashy like theme

Window.GetMaxWidth = fun (){
  i = 0;
  width = 0;
  while (Window.GetWidth(i)){
    width = Math.Max(width, Window.GetWidth(i));
    i++;
    }
  return width;
};

Window.GetMaxHeight = fun (){
  i = 0;
  height = 0;
  while (Window.GetHeight(i)){
    height = Math.Max(height, Window.GetHeight(i));
    i++;
    }
  return height;
};

anim.imagecount = 100;
anim.target_width =  0.2* 0.46 * Window.GetWidth();
anim.target_height =  0.2* 0.46 * Window.GetWidth();

fun RotatedImage (index){
    index = Math.Int(index);
    if (!RotatedImageCache[index])
        RotatedImageCache[index] = anim.original_image.Rotate((Math.Pi*2*index)/anim.imagecount).Scale(anim.target_width, anim.target_height);

    return RotatedImageCache[index];
    }


if (Plymouth.GetMode() == "suspend" || Plymouth.GetMode() == "resume") {
  background.original_image = ImageNew("suspend.png");
  Window.SetBackgroundTopColor(1, 0, 0);
  Window.SetBackgroundBottomColor(0, 1, 0);
}
else {
  logo.original_image = ImageNew("logo.png");
  background.original_image = ImageNew("background.png");
  Window.SetBackgroundTopColor(0.234, 0.43, 0.705);
  Window.SetBackgroundBottomColor(0.16, 0.25, 0.44);

  anim.image= ImageNew("animation.png");
  anim.original_image= anim.image.Scale(anim.target_width, anim.target_width);

  anim.sprite = SpriteNew();
  anim.sprite.SetImage(RotatedImage (0));
  anim.sprite.SetX((Window.GetX() + Window.GetWidth() - RotatedImage(0).GetWidth()) / 2);
  anim.sprite.SetY(Window.GetY() + Window.GetHeight() * 0.37);
  anim.angle = 0;
  anim.index = 0;


}
#change reduction size to make logo bigger
ratio =  logo.original_image.GetWidth() / logo.original_image.GetHeight();
reduction = 0.4;
logo.image = logo.original_image.Scale(reduction * Window.GetMaxWidth() , reduction / ratio *  Window.GetMaxWidth());
logo.sprite = SpriteNew();
logo.sprite.SetImage(logo.image);
logo.opacity_angle = 0;
#change logo location
logo.sprite.SetX((Window.GetX() + Window.GetMaxWidth()  - logo.image.GetWidth())  / 2);
logo.sprite.SetY(Window.GetY() + Window.GetHeight() * 0.37);
#background image attributs x,z,y
background.image = background.original_image.Scale(Window.GetMaxWidth() , Window.GetMaxHeight());
background.sprite = SpriteNew();
background.sprite.SetImage(background.image);
background.sprite.SetPosition(Window.GetX(), Window.GetY(), -10);

sprite_prompt = SpriteNew();

fun refresh_callback ()
  {
    if (status == "normal")
      {
#anim.index=speed of rotation
    anim.index += 1;
    anim.index %= anim.imagecount;
    anim.sprite.SetImage(RotatedImage (anim.index));
        #anim.sprite.SetOpacity (1);
    motif.sprite.SetOpacity(motif.opacity);
      }
    else
      {
        anim.sprite.SetOpacity(0);
    motif.sprite.SetOpacity(0);
      }

  }

if (Plymouth.GetMode() != "suspend" && Plymouth.GetMode() != "resume") {
  Plymouth.SetRefreshFunction (refresh_callback);
}

#----------------------------------------- Dialog --------------------------------

status = "normal";

fun dialog_setup()
  {
    local.box;
    local.lock;
    local.entry;
    local.prompt_sprite;

    box.image = ImageNew("box.png");
    lock.image = ImageNew("lock.png");
    entry.image = ImageNew("entry.png");

    box.sprite = SpriteNew();
    box.sprite.SetImage(box.image);
    box.x = Window.GetX() + Window.GetWidth()  / 2 - box.image.GetWidth()/2;
    box.y = Window.GetY() + Window.GetHeight() / 2 - box.image.GetHeight()/2;
    box.z = 10000;
    box.sprite.SetPosition(box.x, box.y, box.z);

    lock.sprite = SpriteNew();
    lock.sprite.SetImage(lock.image);
    lock.x = box.x + box.image.GetWidth()/2 - (lock.image.GetWidth() + entry.image.GetWidth()) / 2;
    lock.y = box.y + box.image.GetHeight()/2 - lock.image.GetHeight()/2;
    lock.z = box.z + 1;
    lock.sprite.SetPosition(lock.x, lock.y, lock.z);

    entry.sprite = SpriteNew();
    entry.sprite.SetImage(entry.image);
    entry.x = lock.x + lock.image.GetWidth();
    entry.y = box.y + box.image.GetHeight()/2 - entry.image.GetHeight()/2;
    entry.z = box.z + 1;
    entry.sprite.SetPosition(entry.x, entry.y, entry.z);

    prompt_sprite = SpriteNew();
    prompt_sprite.SetPosition(box.x, box.y - 20, box.z);

    global.dialog.box = box;
    global.dialog.lock = lock;
    global.dialog.entry = entry;
    global.dialog.bullet_image = ImageNew("bullet.png");
    global.dialog.prompt_sprite = prompt_sprite;
    dialog_opacity (1);
  }

fun dialog_opacity(opacity)
  {
    dialog.box.sprite.SetOpacity(opacity);
    dialog.lock.sprite.SetOpacity(opacity);
    dialog.entry.sprite.SetOpacity(opacity);
    dialog.prompt_sprite.SetOpacity(opacity);
    for (index = 0; dialog.bullet[index]; index++)
      {
        dialog.bullet[index].sprite.SetOpacity(opacity);
      }
  }

fun display_normal_callback ()
  {
    global.status = "normal";
    if (global.dialog)
      dialog_opacity (0);
  }

fun display_password_callback (prompt, bullets)
  {
    global.status = "password";
    if (!global.dialog) 
    dialog_setup();
    else 
    dialog_opacity(1);
    motif.sprite.SetOpacity(0);
    anim.sprite.SetOpacity(0);

    dialog.prompt_sprite.SetImage(Image.Text(prompt, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0));
    for (index = 0; dialog.bullet[index] || index < bullets; index++)
      { 

        if (!dialog.bullet[index])
          {
            dialog.bullet[index].sprite = SpriteNew();
            dialog.bullet[index].sprite.SetImage(dialog.bullet_image);
            dialog.bullet[index].x = dialog.entry.x + index * dialog.bullet_image.GetWidth();
            dialog.bullet[index].y = dialog.entry.y + dialog.entry.image.GetHeight() / 2 - dialog.bullet_image.GetHeight() / 2;
            dialog.bullet[index].z = dialog.entry.z + 1;
            dialog.bullet[index].sprite.SetPosition(dialog.bullet[index].x, dialog.bullet[index].y, dialog.bullet[index].z);
          }
        if (index < bullets)
          dialog.bullet[index].sprite.SetOpacity(1);
        else
          dialog.bullet[index].sprite.SetOpacity(0);
      }
  }

fun display_message_callback (prompt)
  {

prompt = Image.Text(prompt,1.0, 1.0, 1.0);
sprite_prompt.SetImage(prompt);
sprite_prompt.SetPosition(Window.GetX() + (Window.GetWidth() - prompt.GetWidth()) / 2, Window.GetY() + Window.GetHeight() * 0.93, 2);
  }

/* instantiate dialog at startup, to ensure all icons are loaded in memory before initrd is unmounted, in case /usr isn't mounted yet */
dialog_setup(); dialog_opacity(0);
Plymouth.SetDisplayNormalFunction(display_normal_callback);
Plymouth.SetDisplayPasswordFunction(display_password_callback);
Plymouth.SetMessageFunction(display_message_callback);

#----------------------------------------- Progress Bar --------------------------------

progress_box.image = Image("progress_box.png");
progress_box.sprite = Sprite(progress_box.image);

progress_box.x = Window.GetX() + Window.GetWidth() / 2 - progress_box.image.GetWidth() / 2;
progress_box.y = Window.GetY() + Window.GetHeight() * 0.65 - progress_box.image.GetHeight() / 2;
progress_box.sprite.SetPosition(progress_box.x, progress_box.y, 0);

progress_bar.original_image = Image("progress_bar.png");
progress_bar.sprite = Sprite();

progress_bar.x = Window.GetX() + Window.GetWidth()  / 2 -        progress_bar.original_image.GetWidth() / 2;
progress_bar.y = Window.GetY() + Window.GetHeight() * 0.65  - progress_box.image.GetHeight() / 2 + (progress_box.image.GetHeight() - progress_bar.original_image.GetHeight()) / 2;
progress_bar.sprite.SetPosition(progress_bar.x, progress_bar.y, 1);

fun progress_callback (duration, progress)
  {
    if (progress_bar.image.GetWidth () != Math.Int (progress_bar.original_image.GetWidth () * progress))
      {
        progress_bar.image = progress_bar.original_image.Scale(progress_bar.original_image.GetWidth(progress_bar.original_image) * progress * 3, progress_bar.original_image.GetHeight());
        progress_bar.sprite.SetImage (progress_bar.image);
      }
  }

Plymouth.SetBootProgressFunction(progress_callback);

#----------------------------------------- Status Update --------------------------------

NUM_SCROLL_LINES = 5;
LINE_WIDTH = 55;
# width of one character
CHAR_WIDTH = 7;
# height of one character
CHAR_HEIGHT = 10;

msg_color = [0.5,0.5,0.5]; # msg_color is array

fun update_status_callback(sta) {
  if (sta == "failed") msg_color = [1,0,0];
  if (sta == "warning") msg_color = [0.8,0.8,0];
  if (sta == "normal") msg_color = [0.5,0.5,0.5];
}

fun StringLength(string) {
  index = 0;
  str = String(string);
  while(str.CharAt(index)) index++;
  return index;
}

// Initialising text images and their positions
// 20 is the height (including line spacing) of each line
for (i=0; i < NUM_SCROLL_LINES; i++) {
  lines[i]= Image.Text("",0,0,0);
  message_sprite[i] = Sprite();
  message_sprite[i].SetX (Window.GetX() + (screen_width / 2 ) - (LINE_WIDTH * CHAR_WIDTH / 2));
  message_sprite[i].SetY (Window.GetY() + (screen_height / 2) + (logo_height /2) +(logo_height * 1.2)+ (i * CHAR_HEIGHT * 2) );
  message_sprite[i].SetZ (10000);
}

pretext = String("");

fun scroll_message_callback(text) {

 nobreak = 0;
   if (text.CharAt(0) == ">") {    # "no linebreak" flag, like "-n"
       text = text.SubString(1, StringLength(text)); # remove ">" at front
       nobreak = 1;
   }

   if (pretext == "") {

       if (nobreak == 1) pretext = text;

   // Truncate the message if too long
   if (StringLength(text) > LINE_WIDTH) {
     text = text.SubString(0, LINE_WIDTH - 3);
     text += "...";
   }

   // Shift messages one up
   for (i = 0; i < NUM_SCROLL_LINES - 1; i++) {
     lines[i] = lines[i+1];
   }
 else {    # the previous message was flagged to have no linebreak

          // Truncate the message if too long
       if (StringLength(text) > LINE_WIDTH - 5) { # leave min. 5 for pretext
         text = text.SubString(0, LINE_WIDTH - 8);
         text += "...";
       }

          # Truncate the previous message if too long
       if (StringLength(pretext) > (LINE_WIDTH - StringLength(text))) {
         pretext = pretext.SubString(0, LINE_WIDTH - StringLength(text) - 3);
         pretext += "...";
       }

       text = pretext + text;

       if (nobreak == 1) pretext = text;
       else pretext = "";

   }

   // Create the image for the latest message
#  original script had "lines[i]"   
   lines[i] = Image.Text( text, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5);

   // Re-allocate the text images to sprites
   for (i = 0; i < NUM_SCROLL_LINES; i++) {
     message_sprite[i].SetImage(lines[i]);
   }
}

Plymouth.SetUpdateStatusFunction(scroll_message_callback);

# messages get added to updates
Plymouth.SetMessageFunction(scroll_message_callback);

#----------------------------------------- Quit --------------------------------

fun quit_callback ()
{
 anim.sprite.SetOpacity (0);
  if (Plymouth.GetMode() == "shutdown") {
   motif.sprite.SetOpacity(0);
  }
}

Plymouth.SetQuitFunction(quit_callback);

OK so I have provided almost all the info needed, if anyone is familiar with this let me know what I am missing to get the boot messages through to Plymouth. Thanks

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