Plymouth

Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot process (even before the root filesystem is mounted) that provides a graphical boot animation while the boot process happens in the background.

The 0.8.10 Manjaro main editions use Plymouth by default.

Installation

The steps from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Plymouth#Installation apply, except the last step;

To rebuild the initrd image, following command is used:

sudo mkinitcpio -p linux<version>

Here <version> represents your kernel version. For example,

sudo mkinitcpio -p linux314

Configuration

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Plymouth#Configuration

Removal

4 or 5 steps are neede to remove Plymouth. Some of them are:

• Remove plymouth hook from /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

• Regenerate the initramfs for your kernel with sudo mkinitcpio -p linux<version>

• Remove the word splash from the Grub command line options via editing /etc/default/grub

• Update Grub config file with sudo update-grub

• Configure display manager: For Xfce or For KDE.

After that you the plymouth package and its themes can be removed.

Forum Support

Have a look at the following link: Plymouth