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NAME
       plymouth - A graphical boot system and logger

DESCRIPTION
       plymouth is a graphical boot system for Linux which takes advantage of the kernel-based mode
       setting (KMS) available for modern graphic cards to provide a seamless, flickerfree and
       attractive boot screen. It allows to choose between various, static or animated graphical
       themes to spruce up the startup and avoid the noise generated by the vast amount of kernel
       messages while the machine boots into X. On systems where kernel-based mode setting is not
       available, plymouth falls back to a text mode boot screen which provides a simple progress
       bar to pro‐ vide feedback during boot.

       In order for the configured default plymouth theme to be loaded during boot, the option
       `splash' (or `rhgb' for backward compatibility with the RHGB boot splash) must be provided at
       the kernel command line. Without this command line option, plymouth will default to showing
       detailed boot output.

       During the boot process, the user can switch between the graphical theme and the detailed
       boot output using the Escape key.

SEE ALSO
       grub(8), plymouth-set-default-theme(1), plymouthd(8), plymouth(1),
       http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth

AUTHORS
       plymouth was originally prototyped and named by Kristian Høgsberg, originally written by Ray
       Strode and has had significant contributions from Charlie Brej. It has also had contributions
       from Peter Jones, Adam Jackson, Frederic Crozat and others.



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