PLYMOUTH(8)PLYMOUTH(8)NAMEplymouth - A graphical boot system and logger
SYNOPSIS
plymouth-set-default-theme [options] <theme>
DESCRIPTIONplymouth is a graphical boot system for Linux which takes advantage of
the kernel-based mode setting (KMS) available for modern graphic cards
to provide a seamless, flickerfree and attractive boot screen. It
allows to choose between various, static or animated graphical themes
to spruce up the startup and avoid the noise generated by the vast
amount of kernel messages while the machine boots into X. On systems
where kernel-based mode setting is not available, plymouth falls back
to a text mode boot screen which provides a simple progress bar to pro‐
vide feedback during boot.
To configure plymouth, that is to choose and install the preferred boot
theme, the user has to invoke plymouth-set-default-theme. It changes
the configuration to the new theme and also performs the necessary
regeneration of the initial ramdisk (initrd) since plymouth is loaded
from the boot loader from the initrd prior to the mounting of the root
filesystem. The options available to this script are explained in the
OPTIONS paragraph.
In order for the configured default plymouth theme to be loaded during
boot, the option `splash' (or `rhgb' for backward compatibility with
the RHGB boot splash) must be provided at the kernel command line.
With this command line option, plymouth will default to showing
detailed boot output.
OPTIONS
plymouth-set-default-theme follows the usual GNU command line syntax,
with long options starting with two dashes (`-') and short variants of
each of them.
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
-l, --list
List available themes.
-r, --reset
Reset to default theme.
-R, --rebuild-initrd
Rebuild initrd (necessary after changing theme).
<theme-name>
Name of new theme to use. If you want to see which themes are
available, invoke the script with just --list.
If plymouth-set-default-theme is invoked with no options or parameters,
it shows the currently selected theme by default. This output is used
by the helper scripts `plymouth-generate-initrd' and `plymouth-update-
initrd' to set the proper theme in the initial ramdisk.
SEE ALSOgrub(8)AUTHORplymouth was originally prototyped and named by Kristian Høgsberg
<krh@bitplanet.net>, originally written by Ray Strode
<halfline@gmail.com> and has had significant contributions from Charlie
Brej <cbrej@cs.man.ac.uk>. It has also had contributions from Peter
Jones <pjones@redhat.com>, Adam Jackson <ajax@nwnk.net>, Frederic
Crozat <fcrozat@mandriva.com> and others. It can be downloaded here:
<http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth>.
This manual page was written by Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-
berlin.de>.
December 15, 2009 PLYMOUTH(8)
