1PLYMOUTH(8)                  System Administration                 PLYMOUTH(8)
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NAME

6       plymouth - A graphical boot system and logger
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DESCRIPTION

9       plymouth is a graphical boot system for Linux which takes advantage of
10       the kernel-based mode setting (KMS) available for modern graphic cards
11       to provide a seamless, flickerfree and attractive boot screen. It
12       allows to choose between various, static or animated graphical themes
13       to spruce up the startup and avoid the noise generated by the vast
14       amount of kernel messages while the machine boots into X. On systems
15       where kernel-based mode setting is not available, plymouth falls back
16       to a text mode boot screen which provides a simple progress bar to pro‐
17       vide feedback during boot.
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19       In order for the configured default plymouth theme to be loaded during
20       boot, the option `splash' (or `rhgb' for backward compatibility with
21       the RHGB boot splash) must be provided at the kernel command line.
22       Without this command line option, plymouth will default to showing
23       detailed boot output.
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25       During the boot process, the user can switch between the graphical
26       theme and the detailed boot output using the Escape key.
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SEE ALSO

29       grub(8), plymouth-set-theme(1), plymouthd(8), plymouth(1),
30       http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth
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AUTHORS

33       plymouth was originally prototyped and named by Kristian Høgsberg,
34       originally written by Ray Strode and has had significant contributions
35       from Charlie Brej. It has also had contributions from Peter Jones, Adam
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