How do I change boot splash screen and login screen background?
2026-06-16 23:25 UTC
I’m on Debian with XFCE
I’ve already tried modifying /etc/default/grub and /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
The first resulted in nothing (I actually have grub timeout set to 0, so I’m not sure if I only need changing grub’s config), the bootsplash was still default
The second resulted in black login bg
Replies (3)
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@hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2026-06-16 23:39
I think the boot splash is done by a software called Plymouth. At least that used to be the case when I last had a boot splash: https://wiki.debian.org/plymouth As for the login greeter… That could have a bunch of different reasons. Maybe you have a typo in the config. Maybe the picture has the wrong format. Or the file system permissions are wrong and it can’t be loaded?!
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@Maiq@piefed.social 2026-06-17 00:34
Pretty sure you have to rebuild the grub update-grub after editing the config files. There are programs to help like grub-custonizer. Careful as messing with grub can break your system.
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@eldavi@lemmy.ml 2026-06-17 16:41
if your grub timeout is set to zero, you’re almost never going to see the bootloader screen.