meilix-artwork

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meilix-artwork comprises the sources for the two plymouth bootscreen theme packages for Meilix, one for logo, one for text based startup screen. These two packages should be installable/testable on any Debian or Ubuntu derivate system and could be configured as the default boot screen.

• plymouth-theme-meilix-logo_1.0-1_all.deb
• plymouth-theme-meilix-text_1.0-1_all.deb

The naming meilix-artwork follows the convention on Debian family distributions, see xubuntu-artwork etc.

Previously Plymouth theme package debuilding used to be done within the meilix build process (https://github.com/fossasia/meilix) but now we moved it to this independent repository to simplify testing. We use Travis CI (https://travis-ci.org/fossasia/meilix-artwork) for debuilding the two debian packages. At present these files are found in the deb branch (https://github.com/fossasia/meilix-artwork/tree/deb) of this repository

Local Installation

• Step 1: Fork the meilix-artwork repository and clone it to you machine
• Step 2: Cd into the cloned folder
• Step 3: Run $ ./debuild.sh (You will need executing permissions execute $ chmod +x ./debuild.sh for the permissions)
• Step 4: Two deb packages will be built in the cloned folder namely:
  • plymouth-theme-meilix-logo_1.0-1_all.deb
  • plymouth-theme-meilix-text_1.0-1_all.deb

Testing the deb

For the logo package

• Step 1: Install the plymouth-theme-meilix-logo_1.0-1_all.deb by running $ sudo dpkg -i ./plymouth-theme-meilix-logo_1.0-1_all.deb
• Step 2: Execute $ sudo apt-get install -f
• Step 3: Install Plymouth with this theme: $ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/meilix-logo/meilix-logo.plymouth 100
• Step 4: Update Plymouth with this theme: $ sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth
  • Select the meilix logo theme
• Step 5: Execute the command: $ sudo update-initramfs -u -k all
• Step 6: Finally reboot

For the text package

• Step 1: Install the plymouth-theme-meilix-text_1.0-1_all.deb by running $ sudo dpkg -i ./plymouth-theme-meilix-text_1.0-1_all.deb
• Step 2: Execute $ sdo apt-get install -f
• Step 3: Install Plymouth with this theme: $ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/text.plymouth text.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/meilix-text/meilix-text.plymouth 150
• Step 4: Update Plymouth with this theme: $ sudo update-alternatives --config text.plymouth
  • Select the meilix text theme
• Step 5: Execute the command: $ sudo update-initramfs -u -k all

Finally reboot or install the plymouth-x11 package test environment $ sudo apt-get install plymouth-x11 , envoke the demon $ sudo plymouthd and show the splash screen $ sudo plymouth --show-splash and kill it $ sudo plymouth quit . Or as a one liner: $ sudo plymouthd; sudo plymouth --show-splash ; for ((I=0; I<10; I++)); do sudo plymouth --update=test$I ; sleep 1; done; sudo plymouth quit

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Plymouth for details. Or https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Plymouth/ for the instructions in German.