Use of the plymouth theme ------------------------- To use the breeze plymouth theme run: sudo plymouth-set-default-theme breeze You might need to update your initrd image with: sudo update-initramfs -u Also, make sure you are passing the "splash" bootparam to your kernel, if you are using grub you can edit /etc/default/grub and modify the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable. For example: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" and run: sudo update-grub afterwards to regenerate the grub configuration files. For more information, please check the /usr/share/doc/plymouth/README.Debian file shipped with the plymouth package, and the plymouth-set-default-theme(1) manpage.