No preview images in Boot Splash Screen section of System Settings

[Astra]

I just installed manjaro kde and this happened

[andreas85]

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[soundofthunder]

@Astra

I just installed manjaro kde and this happened

What happened?

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[scotty65]

It looks like the issue is related to having the plymouth-kcm package installed, however the Plymouth boot splash screens cannot be previewed outside of a TTY session, so the module in Plasma’s Systems Settings just shows image placeholders. You should still be able to select the themes, but you won’t see the boot splash you selected in action until you reboot.

More info about this here:

Boot Splash Screen in KDE Plasma 6

They have never been there - at least I never saw them - so they cannot be missing. You should know that this kcm applet is simply listing the available Plymouth themes by name. The kcm applet acts as a frontend for plymouth-set-default-theme which has no option for preview. $ plymouth-set-default-theme --help Plymouth theme chooser usage: plymouth-set-default-theme { --list | --reset [ --rebuild-initrd ] | <theme-name> [ --rebuild-initrd ] | --rebuild-initrd | --help } -h, --help …

[Ben]

I previously thought this was a bug - however, it really is an abberation…

The best ways to get to see them are:

• Select and reboot
• Click through 'Get New…
• From ‘Get New…’ link to the web:

AmigaKickstart

It’s understandable that you think it’s a bug - but it’s actually just one of the more janky aspects of Plasma… ideally there would be live previews available somehow.

[soundofthunder]

@Ben

ideally there would be live previews available somehow.

According to Plymouth (Arch Wiki) this will preview the currently configured screen:

plymouthd; plymouth --show-splash; sleep 5; plymouth --quit

I seem to recall being able to preview new screens via the GUI, but I haven’t used Plymouth in a very long time, so my glasses might be rose-tinted.