Plymouth on Arch
I’m now enjoying beautiful splashes at boot on my Arch box. Yes, plymouth works quite well on Arch. To get it working well, execute the folowing steps:
1. First get KMS enabled in your kernel.
2. Next install plymouth-git from aur:yaourt -S plymouth-git
3. Then edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and add 'plymouth' (without the quotes) in the HOOKS line after base, udev and autodetect.
4. Rebuild initrd using(as root):mkinitcpio -p kernel26
5. To change themes, do:sudo plymouth-set-default-theme --rebuild-initrd
You can find themes in /usr/share/plymouth/themes.
6. Reboot
The only problem I have with this method is that plymouthd does not get stopped even after plymouth splash ends. For that I have to do (as root)killall plymouthd
everytime I login(not a very viable solution). So, if you guys have any better solution, feel free to tell me.
Cheers!