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 1024x768.

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 -- 800x600, 1365x768, 640x480 & 640x400

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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