plymouth-blåhaj

This is a Plymouth theme which gives you a spinning low-poly Blåhaj as your Linux system boots.

The 3D model used is by @IsabelleDotJpeg via Sketchfab, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

Usage

• Install by copying the blåhaj directory to /usr/share/plymouth/themes

• Follow your distribution's instructions for changing the theme. On Arch you need to:

  • change the Theme option in /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf to blåhaj
  • run plymouth-set-default-theme -R blåhaj as root. For me, this generates a ton of warnings about UTF-8 filenames, but it does end up working.

  It's probably the same on other distros, but it's worth checking.

Files

• spinny.blend is a Blender project containing the 3D model set up to spin around in a loop
• frames contains 4K (in retrospect, overkill) renders of the blåhaj in various orientations
• blåhaj contains the theme itself, mostly copied from the default spinner theme except for the blåhaj images and name/description
• scripts contains a few scripts I used to generate the final images. Generally the workflow is to run ./scripts/crop.sh and then ./scripts/fade.sh from this repository. See comments in each script for more on what they do. You need Python 3, ffmpeg, GNU parallel, and optionally optipng (comment out the lines that call it if you don't want to use it).