NOTE: This is just an animated GIF preview. The real thing is better, with a perfect color gradient.

mint-logo-2: A new Plymouth theme for Linux Mint

This is a new version for your animated boot screen. This logo here is twice as large as the standard one. My boot screen is full HD: 1920 X 1080 pixels. In my humble opinion, the standard Mint Plymouth theme looked a bit "cheap", being too small for this full HD screen. It almost felt like there was just a small "dot" displayed there. Now this new logo is double-sized at 200 pixels large. This works best on FHD screens, but i also tested it on my old little netbook, with a 1024 X 600 pixels boot screen. On this small netbook this new logo may look a bit big, but it still works.

And everything is completely redesigned here, with a clearly noticeable animation and a nice mint flavored background. And yet, it is still discreet, not too flashy.

FIND NEW PLYMOUTH THEMES mint-3 here. These new themes are based on the same engine as the current Plymouth theme for Linux Mint 21.3.

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How to install

1. Download ZIP here (OR click on top-right green button "Code" and then click on "Download ZIP".)
2. Extract this entire zip.
3. Make sure INSTALLER.sh is allowed to execute as program: File > Properties > Permissions > Allow executing file as program. (See screenshot) OR type chmod +x /PATH/TO/THIS/DIRECTORY/INSTALLER.sh in the terminal. (This is probably already okay.)
4. Open your Terminal into this new downloaded and extracted directory: cd /PATH/TO/THIS/PLYMOUTH-THEME
5. In your Terminal, type ./INSTALLER.sh and press Enter.
6. Restart and check the results!

How to revert to the original mint-logo

1. Make sure REVERT.sh is allowed to execute as program, just like you did for INSTALLER.sh, as described above. (This is probably already okay.)
2. Open your Terminal into this new downloaded and extracted directory: cd /PATH/TO/THIS/PLYMOUTH-THEME
3. In your Terminal, type ./REVERT.sh and press Enter.
4. Restart and check the results!

How to check things (optional)

You can check things with this command: update-alternatives --display default.plymouth

You can preview your default Plymouth theme using the preview.sh script. You must run this script as root. To do so, you need to open your Terminal in this downloaded plymouth-theme-mint-logo-2 directory and run this script this way:

cd /PATH/TO/THIS/PLYMOUTH-THEME
sudo ./preview.sh

This will preview the splash screen for 10 seconds. You can change this default 10 seconds by adding XX seconds at the end of the command. Example:

sudo ./preview.sh 20

for a 20 seconds preview.

Based on the official, trustworthy engine

(The official copyrights are listed in: mint-logo-2/mint-logo.script)

Written by: Alberto Milone [email protected]
Adapted to Ubuntu GNOME by: Alfredo Hernández [email protected]
Adapted to Linux Mint by: Clément Lefebvre [email protected]
Modified for Linux Mint by: Sébastien Bouchard [email protected]
Based on the example provided with the "script plugin" written by: Charlie Brej [email protected]
Question stuff written by: Markus Waas [email protected]

Modified or added by Sébastien Bouchard [email protected] for Linux Mint:

• new images and new SVG sources for these new images
• new logo design (minor changes)
• changed settings in mint-logo-2/mint-logo.script (minor changes)
• simple installer, revert, and preview scripts
• previews
• etc.