<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> For Intel chipsets affected by Bug <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1389904">1389904</a>, the user sees a garbled, something's-clearly-wrong Plymouth splash screen at startup and shutdown. I wanted to create and use a very simple monocolor Plymouth theme that I hoped would look OK. <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/Plymouth">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/Plymouth</a> indicates that Plymouth uses the alternatives system to set the theme that it will use, and the themes are located at /lib/plymouth/themes/theme-name/theme-name.plymouth. Then it references the tutorial that begins at <a href="http://brej.org/blog/?p=158">http://brej.org/blog/?p=158</a> for the details, except as amended by those two facts. Rather than plowing through the details of that tutorial, I used this simple guide for my simple purpose (see section 5 on creating a very basic theme): <a href="http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1149">http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1149</a> What I found was that though alternatives reports that my simple.plymouth is now the default.plymouth, the system ignores that and continues to boot with the lubuntu-logo.plymouth theme. Can someone point out where I fell short or went astray? Or how I can hack the lubuntu-logo theme to achieve what I want? (On the latter, can I, for instance, simply delete some of the PNG files?) </body> </html>