darwin-plymouth

This an awesome, sophisticated and minimalist Plymouth Theme.

Prerequisites

In order to use this theme, you need to install and configure Plymouth application to show a graphical boot animation while the boot process happens in the background. To achieve this run these commands:

$ sudo apt install plymouth plymouth-themes

And configure Plymouth for your graphic card, editing the file /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and adding these modesetting lines:

• For Intel Graphic Cards:

  # KMS
  intel_agp
  drm
  i915 modeset=1

• For NVidia Graphic Cards:

  # KMS
  drm
  nouveau modeset=1

• For ATI Graphic Cards:

  # KMS
  drm
  radeon modeset=1

How to install it?

Follow this instructions from a Terminal:

1. Copy darwin folder to path /usr/share/plymouth/themes/:

   $ sudo cp -R darwin/ /usr/share/plymouth/themes/

2. Install it running these commands:

   $ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/darwin/darwin.plymouth 100
   
   $ sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth

   And choose the plymouth theme number, then press Enter key

3. Activate it running this command:

   $ sudo update-initramfs -u