What's this?

I made a boot animation for my linux machine, which is a glowing tracer running in an upside down triangle path. The whole triangle will spin then flash when the booting process is completed.

Preview

Loop

End

Compiling

Dependencies

sfml for rendering C++ animation scene

imagemagick for glowing effect

optipng for png optimization

Commands

Just run ./make from the repo root

Installing

After compiling, there should be a folder name build, copy it as /usr/share/plymouth/themes/huelessos-plymouth, you can also use prebuilt package in the page

To verify that the theme has been installed correctly, huelessos-plymouth should appear in the output of

plymouth-set-default-theme -l

From here, to make the boot animation permanent, run

sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R huelessos-plymouth

TODO

• Remove rendering to screen while making theme
• Make release package