HOW-TO make custom usplash art
After only being able to find posts of people asking this question i decided to explore and find out how to do it. Great thanks to garry for his tuto at –http://ubuntusatanic.org/forum/comme…onID=21&page=1
So first things first, create an image you wont to use for usplash
try and keep the colours to a minimum
1.) Make the image 1024×768.
2.) Flatten the image so it only has one layer.
— in GIMP do this by {Image–>flatten image}.
3.) Reduce the colours by doing
{Image–>Mode–>Indexed} Select “Generate optimum palette” and set the number of colours to 256.
4.) Play around with dithering to set optimum appearance, then save as a .png
5.) Repeat this for sizes — 800×600, 1365×768, 640×480 & 640×400
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– Install some build utilities
1.)
Code:
sudo apt-get install cdbs debhelper dpkg-dev fakeroot devscripts autotools-dev
– Install the build dependencies for the usplash stuff
2.)
Code:
sudo apt-get build-dep usplash-theme-ubuntu
– Get the source code – I’d base it on the xubuntu usplash.
3.)
Code:
cd && apt-get source xubuntu-artwork-usplash
– Make sure you have permission to overwrite everything
4.)
Code:
user=$(whoami) ; sudo chmod -R 777 /home/$user/xubuntu-artwork-0.19*
– Build the package
5.)
Code:
user=$(whoami) ; cd /home/$user/xubuntu-artwork-0.19/ && dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
Installation. The compilation process generates a .so file. Copy it
to /usr/lib/usplash. To install it, run
6.)
Code:
sudo update-alternatives –install /usr/lib/usplash/usplash-artwork.so usplash-artwork.so /usr/lib/usplash/usplash-theme-xubuntu.so 10
– Finally
7.)
Code:
sudo update-alternatives –config usplash-artwork.so && sudo update-initramfs -u
– Test it with
8.)
Code:
sudo usplash -c