Plymouth on Statler

Dec 13, 2010 (about 1 year ago)

I have recently been playing around with implementing Plymouth on CrunchBang Statler. I have managed to get it working without too much bother, but now that it is working, I am not sure if I like it.

My uncertainty is not about the Plymouth theme, but whether Plymouth takes away more than it provides. For sure, it is superficially nice to have a graphical boot, but at the same time, it is probably more useful to not have one.

Honestly, I do not know why I am concerning myself with this, the boot process only lasts for a very short amount of time and how it looks is hardly mission critical. Still, I am feeling torn about it and I would be interested to know what others think. Also, I wonder how many users actually disable their system’s graphical boot on distributions where it is enabled by default?

P.S. I took a look at the new Debian Squeeze Plymouth theme whilst I was playing around, it is the mutt’s nuts! Squeeze is shaping up very nicely.

Tagged with: crunchbang linux, plymouth

9 responses to “Plymouth on Statler”

  • Anzan Anzan on,
    Dec 13, 2010 (about 1 year ago)

    I always set verbose.

    At the very least I like letting the system tell me what’s loading because it seems only polite considering what it’s doing for me.

  • Barnabyh Barnabyh on,
    Dec 14, 2010 (about 1 year ago)

    I often hit the Fn key to see the messages, but most of my installations are set to verbose anyway. Slackware and Arch have it by default, and there people try and obscure the useful output again with bootsplash.

  • johnraff johnraff on,
    Dec 14, 2010 (about 1 year ago)

    I tried plymouth for a bit, but eventually got rid of it. It took a lot of tweaking to get it working but eventually there was something about it that annoyed me - forget what it was…

    Would like some splash screen though. Depending on the speed of your processor the gap between grub and gdm may not be negligable and the #! 9.04 splash adds a very nice “professional” touch, which impresses onlookers. :)

  • Gutterslob Gutterslob on,
    Dec 16, 2010 (about 1 year ago)

    The only experience I’ve had with Plymouth has been with Ubuntu and Fedora. Fedora’s was beautiful, but once I got my Nvidia’s restricted driver working, it sorta screwed up the Plymouth resolution. Ubuntu’s was just plain fugly, the loading dots, the sexually-deprived purple, everything.

    It would be good if you could maybe set up a forum thread that had instructions to get plymouth working on Statler, for those that want it. Personally, I tend to use verbose, but once I have my boot sorted (and don’t get any errors), I sometimes do crave a simple boot splash like the old #! 9.04 one, especially on one of my rigs that has large, ugly verbose fonts (our settings for framebuffer fonts only come into affect midway through the boot process).

    Oh, on a side note, I preferred the older Statler GRUB 2 screen. The new one’s fine and matches the current forum theme and all, but seeing a grey GRUB (bordering on brown with the temperatures most LCD’s are set at these days) screen, only to be followed by a black verbose boot, and then going back to your desktop (with whatever wallpaper you have) kind of feels a bit “here-and-there” for me.

    Cheers.

  • corenominal corenominal on,
    Dec 16, 2010 (about 1 year ago)

    @Gutterslob, I think you are quite correct about the new GRUB 2 image. I will have a play at reverting it back to black.

  • omns omns on,
    Dec 22, 2010 (about 1 year ago)

    I can live without plymouth. I see no need for a graphical bootloader.

  • corenominal corenominal on,
    Dec 22, 2010 (about 1 year ago)

    @omns, I can live without it too, but after a week or so of using Plymouth, I am kind of warming to it. I think I will give it a trial run on CrunchBang and see how it goes. Depending on feedback, it can always be removed.

  • ali ali on,
    Feb 9, 2011 (about 1 year ago)

    i removed plymouth the second i saw it :) much better to see what’s actually going on

  • Lex Aleksandre Lex Aleksandre on,
    Dec 24, 2011 (about 4 months ago)

    Certainly there are those who enjoy these decorations. But at least among the official plymouth themes do not see any that matches the CrunchBang Linux. The verbose messages longer match the style of CrunchBang. I’m a Debian Squeeze user with all the features of CrunchBang Linux. I’m enjoying it so much.

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