1. To make Plymouth work: 1.1. Add "plymouth" to HOOKS after "base" and "udev" in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf 1.2. Add 'quiet splash' to the grub command line in /etc/default/grub

   GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

   then: sudo update-gruborsudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

   1.3. Rebuild your initrd image (# mkinitcpio -p [kernel preset name]).

   E.g.: sudo mkinitcpio -p linux38

1. To enable encryption, replace "encrypt" with "plymouth-encrypt" in mkinitcpio.conf and rebuild your initrd image.

2. You will also need to rebuild your initrd image every time you change your theme the default is set as 'spinfinity', use plymouth-set-default-themeto show.

To list all plymouth themes: plymouth-set-default-theme -l

To change theme: # plymouth-set-default-theme

To rebuild initrd image: # mkinitcpio -p

1. For Smooth Transition to Display Manager you have to: 4.1. See the Wiki Page (link in 5) to prepare your Display Manager 4.2. Disable your Display Manager Unit E.g. : systemctl disable kdm.service 4.3. Enable the respective DM-plymouth Unit (GDM,KDM,Lightdm,LXDM units provided) E.g. : systemctl enable kdm-plymouth.service

2. For more information please visit the Wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Plymouth