minimal-dark

Minimal, dark, Arch Linux themes for rEFInd, Plymouth and SLiM.

rEFInd

Loosely based on EvanPurkhiser's rEFInd-minimal-theme, but with white logos on a black background.

To use, copy the refind folder nto minimal-dark into your rEFInd EFI folder (usually /boot/EFI/refind/), then add the line include minimal-dark/theme.conf to the end of your refind.conf.

You might want to add some more icons into the icons folder if you use different OSs to me.

If you want to use the use_graphics_for option then the flash through grey is less than ideal. To fix:

1. Download the PKGBUILD and other files from https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/refind-efi.
2. Run makepkg -o to download and extract the source files.
3. Open src/refind-0.7.4/refind/screen.c
4. Replace: EG_PIXEL StdBackgroundPixel = { 0xbf, 0xbf, 0xbf, 0 }; on line 69 with EG_PIXEL StdBackgroundPixel = { 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0 };.
5. Run makepkg -esi to build and install.
6. Run sudo refind-install to copy the new rEFInd binaries to /boot/efi/EFI/refind.

Plymouth

Made by modifying the Arch Logo theme, which in turn is based on debian-logo.

Added a script which extracts the BIOS image for a flicker-free boot experience (script from: https://github.com/mxre/plymouth-bgrt).

Run:

cd plymouth
sudo ./generate.sh
sudo ./install.sh

To extract the BGRT logo and install the theme.

SLiM

I don't use this one so it might not work any more.

If you're vertical screen resolution isn't 768px then the session_y and msg_y config options will need adjusting.

Copy into /usr/share/slim/themes/minimal-dark and set minimal-dark as the theme in /etc/slim.conf.

GDM

Build, then copy the resulting gnome-shell-theme.gresource to /usr/share/gnome-shell and restart GDM.