Caledonia Tux

Based on the work of Alfred Kretschmer (Breathing Tux plymouth) and Malcer Quaid (Caledonia Themes), as well as Ivan Cizik's PAW-OSX Plymouth theme.

All credit to the authors of the original works.

Remember to modify paths in caledonia_tux.plymouth script to whatever correct path is for your distro.


INSTALL

1. Decompress the archive to your plymouth theme directory, e.g /lib/plymouth/themes
2. Install the plymouth theme
~$ sudo update-alternatives --install /lib/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /lib/plymouth/themes/caledonia_tux/caledonia_tux.plymouth 100
3. Run update-alternatives to choose new plymouth
~$ sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth
Choose caledonia_tux theme
4. Edit /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/functions to log messages to plymouth. Note, This is optional. If you don't want any output
logged during boot, you can skip this step.

Your _log_msg() function should look like this
Quote:

_log_msg()
{
if [ -x /bin/plymouth ]; then
/bin/plymouth update --status="$@"
fi
if [ "$quiet" = "y" ]; then return; fi
echo "$@"
}

5. Update your initramfs
~$ sudo update-initramfs -u

6. Reboot

- Added spinning loading indicator
- Added password support
- Changed text color to a darker shade of gray