Plymouth

Package

yay -S plymouth

Configuration

Add plymouth hook in mkinitcpio.conf after base and udev:

/etc/mkinitcpio.conf

HOOKS=(base udev plymouth ...)

WARNING: If using the encrypt hook, replace it with the plymouth-encrypt hook and place it after the plymouth hook in order to receive a passphrase prompt!

HOOKS=(base udev plymouth ... plymouth-encrypt ...)

List plymouth themes (reads /usr/share/plymouth/themes):

plymouth-set-default-theme -l

Set plymouth theme, e.g. BGRT:

sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R bgrt

Better BGRT Splash for LUKS passphrase entry

yay -S plymouth-theme-bgrt-better-luks