Plymouth for openrc

This contains multiple openrc scripts to start plymouth and boot into the display manager of your choice

Dependencies

• A display manager that is supported (listed in one of the files)

• Plymouth

• OpenRC

Installation

Add the following:

# in /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="... quiet splash" # Replace ... with whatever is already there by default

# in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
HOOKS=(... plymouth ...)  # Replace ... with whatever you already have

Issue the following in a terminal

# Use sudo if you do not have doas

doas grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg # rebuild the grub config since we changed it

doas mkinitcpio -P # rebuild the initramfs since we changed it

doas cp ${display_manager_of_your_choice} /etc/init.d/

doas cp plymouth-quit /etc/init.d/

doas rc-update add ${display_manager_of_your_choice} default # make sure we start the display manager (with some extra touches for plymouth)

doas rc-update add plymouth-quit default # boots into your display manager without just hanging on plymouth forever

doas cp plymouth-poweroff.stop /etc/local.d/ # enables plymouth at shutdown screen