Nixos plymouth configurationLimit or a /boot of at least a gigabyte. extraConfig, boot. font, boot NixOS Plymouth This repo contains a plymouth theme for NixOS that pulses the NixOS logo. plymouth contains 9 NixOS options across 1 NixOS option set, including boot. nix and use your then in command line nix-env -iA nixos. Aug 21, 2025 路 Plymouth is an application that runs early in the boot process, providing a graphical boot animation, it is used by most desktop-oriented Linux distributions. nix(5) man page # and in the NixOS Dec 2, 2024 路 Hi, I wondered if it’s possible to get plymouth to keep showing while getty does autologin. Boot splash and boot logger. themePackages And there are some plymouth themes already in nixpkgs. I’d like if I could keep plymouth going a little longer so I don’t see the tty prompt at all, and just go grub → plymouth (preferably doesn’t freeze but . This repo contains a plymouth theme for Nixos, thanks to discourse for giving me motivation. Consider overriding this with a list of the string names of each theme to install. Jul 9, 2025 路 I’m trying to get a plymouth bootsplash working but I’m doing something wrong and can’t seem to figure it out. Jul 8, 2022 路 Hi 馃憢 Just wanted to throw in a new plymouth loop I crafted. boot. plymouth. canTouchEfiVariables = true; boot. Thanks for any help! Edit: To make it easier to see what exactly is This is a very simple plymouth theme for nixos containing a static image of the nixos logo. Check . Then my fish init starts sway. I don’t see anything obvious in your configuration that would be an issue, so I think we would need to see the logs. initrd. A variety of plymouth boot screens by adi1090x. (here is the usage example) NixOS converted Plymouth Themes I'll do my best to contact the theme owners first, and of course any that wishes to have theirs removed, altered, etc, can easily request to do so. verbose = false; boot Nix package plymouth declared in nixpkgs. themePackages I’ve tried looking into other plymouth themes to see if theres any problems with the config, and I’m sure there are (I’m very new), but I can’t find them. Sep 19, 2022 路 I than ran nixos-rebuild switch to rebuild my nixos configuration and rebooted my box. enable = true; boot. NixOS option set boot. nix # Bootloader. nix and I suspect something is wrong with the syntax but can’t figure it out: # Edit this configuration file to define what should be installed on # your system. by ElvishJerricco · Pull Request #439447 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub I’m on the the latest unstable (Oct 20, 2025) and in my case it’s sufficient to enter a wrong LUKS password a single time. Any ideas? Apr 22, 2025 路 Thanks for the heads up about plymouth issues. enable, boot. Feb 23, 2025 路 The plymouth thing is a red herring; it always says that, even when a functioning system has to go into emergency mode. Using the default value of selected_themes will install all themes (~524M). loader. Jan 25, 2024 路 From what I see, NixOS has a boot. Currently, it goes grub → plymouth animation → quick blank screen → frozen plymouth → getty autologin. nix for available themes. /shas. Checkout the nixos wiki. So we don’t have enough information here. So when you create your own, use maybe one of these derivations as a template, create an overlay for nixpkgs in your configuration. As part of my testing, I am trying to get Plymouth to show the password prompt for my encrypted root partition. This is the excerpt from my configuration. I’ve fixed it to some degree: nixos/plymouth: Fix emergency / rescue mode. efi. Jun 30, 2024 路 The requested theme: plymouth-theme-bowlbird-logo is not provided by any packages in boot. powerline restart 2 for boot animation like fedora and hide boot logs add this in your configuration. Did you try that already? It appears you can also add theme packages via boot. theme = "bgrt"; boot. Help is available in the configuration. journalctl -b 0 will show all the logs for the current boot. Jan 24, 2023 路 I am trying out NixOS in VirtualBox, and I am seriously considering moving to it as my main distro. trueSo, I’m attempting to get Plymouth set up, and it seems like it works — mostly, but it’s not showing the logo. Use it with boot. As most themes with NixOS have to be added in a more manual way, some of the themes that myself and friends would like need to be done up will be added here for simplicity, thusly I'm converting them over. plymouth option that includes a way to set the theme. While I don’t see all the typical boot messages that appear when plymouth was not configured – I do see the following output: Nov 4, 2024 路 NixOS is supposed to show plymouth animation and continue the boot process but instead the OEM logo appears again and blink 2 times Up to this point the boot process had finished before plymouth could actually play the animation (plymouth is only shown for half of a second and it goes away because the login manager has to utilize the display In order to use this theme, you need to install and configure Plymouth application to show a graphical boot animation while the boot process happens in the background. systemd-boot. 5 loops already 馃槅 I hope you like it. Warning: Using this repo for some reason bloats the initrd quite a bit (up to 50 MB). Please check out the credits section for all the work that inspired this. On EFI Systems it's also possible to keep the initrd on the main partition when switching to Grub. 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