The Linux4All boot screen

This is a Fork of "Vortex Ubuntu" by Emanuele Scarsella, for Linux4All

It is a simple plymouth theme with shell scripts to install, test and eventualy uninstall the theme. the theme have animations that makes the colored strips spin at different velocities with a vortex effect and on boot up it offers a simple but elegant progress bar

Dependencies

• plymouth, libplymouth5, plymouth-label
• Raccomanded: plymouth-x11
• Install dependencies with sudo apt install plymouth libplymouth5 plymouth-label

Boot up splash screen

Shutdown splash screen

Installation

NOTE: apt compatible package coming soon!

• go to the downloaded vortex-ubuntu-plymouth-theme folder from terminal, it can be done with the following command

cd /PATH/TO/vortex-ubuntu-plymouth-theme

or by opening the folder with your file explorer and going to RIGHT-CLICK > Open in Terminal

• make the install file executable, it can be done with the following command

sudo chmod +x install

• execute the install file, it can be done with the following command

sudo ./install

Test

• go to the downloaded vortex-ubuntu-plymouth-theme folder from terminal, it can be done with the following command

cd /PATH/TO/vortex-ubuntu-plymouth-theme

or by opening the folder with your file explorer and going to RIGHT-CLICK > Open in Terminal

• make the show-splash.sh file executable, it can be done with the following command

sudo chmod +x show-splash.sh

• execute the show-splash.sh file, it can be done with the following command

sudo ./show-splash.sh

Removal

• go to the downloaded vortex-ubuntu-plymouth-theme folder from terminal, it can be done with the following command

cd /PATH/TO/vortex-ubuntu-plymouth-theme

or by opening the folder with your file explorer and going to RIGHT-CLICK > Open in Terminal

• make the uninstall file executable, it can be done with the following command

sudo chmod +x uninstall

• execute the uninstall file, it can be done with the following command

sudo ./uninstall

• then when asked chose the new plymouth theme by typing the number of your choice and pressing Enter

Customizing background color

• open the file in vortex-ubuntu/bg.png in any image editor of your choice

• fill the image with the color you want as background

• save changes ensuring to NOT change neither the file name bg.png neither his location vortex-ubuntu

• proceed to installation/reinstallation

Customizing background image

• rename, remove or move to a different folder the file in vortex-ubuntu/bg.png

• put your custom background image IN PNG FORMAT inside the vortex-ubuntu folder

• rename your custom beckground image as bg.png

• proceed to installation/reinstallation

License

This project is licensed under the GPL v.2 License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

Inspiration, code snippets, etc.

• Inspiration for estetic & style