Hi, I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 and I can't manage to change the Usplash theme. I tried installing the "start up manager", but when I set a different theme the boot splash screen isn't shown at all and I can see is a lot of text information from the system boot. When I set the standard theme again it comes back to normal behavior.

So, all I want is to set different Usplash themes. Can't it be done on Ubuntu 8.10? Do I have to install some other program to show the boot splash screen? I've heard many people had the same problem, why?


Thanks for the help.

Try this: http://www.troublenow.org/?p=16

Google showed more for "usplash themes"...

M.

I know this is an old thread, but thought I clarify something about using startup-manager:

It is not creating the symlink in /etc/alternatives

Ran ls -al usplash.artwork.so and it was not pointing to my custom usplash. This after trying a few times with startup-manager.

Oh and thanks for the link to changing usplash the hard way. :-)

I went ahead and tried the manual steps before posting my reply.

Well, I ran sudo usplash and it complained that no suitable theme was found. very strange.

You might wanna also check out this caffemisto

http://forumubuntusoftware.info/view...php?f=7&t=3377