CrossCode-inspired Plymouth theme

Recording of the boot process with crossgrub grub theme installed and LUKS2+LVM setup:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1531b56d-1a2f-4b32-86ec-822f85bf2744

The theme consists of:

• Boot progress bar
• Disk decryption password input menu
• Shutdown/reboot screen

NOTE: The wallpaper shown in the recording is not part of the theme, you can find it here

Installation

NOTE: Instructions for Arch Linux

initramfs flags

Add plymouth to HOOKS after udev:
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf:

HOOKS=(base udev plymouth keyboard ...)

Remember to regenerate initramfs:

mkinitcpio -P

Kernel parameters

You have to add the quiet splash parameters, the other flags are recommended for a more flicker-free experience.
For example with GRUB:
/etc/default/grub:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash vt.global_cursor_default=0 loglevel=3 systemd.show_status=0 rd.udev.log_level=3 fbcon=nodefer"

Remember to regenerate GRUB config:

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Theme installation - from source

• Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/krypciak/crosscode-plymouth

• Run the installation script as root

sudo bash ./install.sh

• Done!

• If you want, you can preview the theme (works only on X11; does not work through XWayland):

sudo bash ./preview.sh

Screenshots

Links

• https://www.opendesktop.org/p/2357959/