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How to restore natural UBUNTU 20.04 LTS bootin & display?

Asked by Navin Talati

While working with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, I had installed some xfce packages and upon booting I was getting display of “xubuntu” with its logo. I do not remember exectly which packages did I installed. Now I have upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, but the prvious “xubuntu” with its logo, I dislike as I loose the natural booting appearance and display of Ubunty 20.04 LTS. Upon searching by “xfce” in the SPM, I found following TWO packages installed:

libxfce4ui-common (4.14.1-1 ubuntu 1)
libxfce4ui-common (4.14.0-1)

(1).
I do not know which command should I apply to purge to restore natural UBUNTU 20.04 LTS?

(2)
Through SPM, if I remove the above packages of xfce, will it restore natural UBUNTU 20.04 LTS?

Please guide and oblige.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

So you just want to change the boot splash? Is this the question?

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Navin Talati (n-m-talati) said : 		#2

Yes Sir.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

With Ubuntu 20.04 a new "boot splash" was introduced (no more orange dots https://linuxundich.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/AA-Ubuntu-Plymouth-Boot-Screen-1021x580.png , but three white "worms" running in a circle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voJDGglp_WU )

Is this what's confusing you?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Run:

sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth

You can choose from the installed boot splashes.

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Navin Talati (n-m-talati) said : 		#5

So not required to remove / purge the face packages?

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Navin Talati (n-m-talati) said : 		#6

Sorry,
read "xfce" instead of face in above #5

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

They are small and take up very little room. If you run:

sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

Then it will remove unnescessary packages for you

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Navin Talati (n-m-talati) said : 		#8

The output of the command in #4 is as under:
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navin@linux:~$ sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth
[sudo] password for navin:
There are 2 choices for the alternative default.plymouth (providing /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth).

  Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
  0 /usr/share/plymouth/themes/xubuntu-logo/xubuntu-logo.plymouth 150 auto mode
* 1 /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth 100 manual mode
  2 /usr/share/plymouth/themes/xubuntu-logo/xubuntu-logo.plymouth 150 manual mode

Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
It gives splash like https://linuxundich.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/AA-Ubuntu-Plymouth-Boot-Screen-1021x580.png ,

but NOT like three white "worms" running in a circle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voJDGglp_WU as in #3

How to bring this new boot-splash?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#9

Your screenshot is the Ubuntu boot splash as far as I am aware. I've not seen the one in your YouTube video. You can see the available Plymouth themes (Which is what that is) with:

apt-cache search plymouth-theme

You can install whichever you like. There are pages online with themes as well.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#10

Does it really matter how the splash screen looks like?

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Navin Talati (n-m-talati) said : 		#11

Ok Sirs.
Splash screen look is not of much important. I thought there is some problem in my previous installation (Ubunto 18.04) and is still persists even after upgradation. From your reply I understood that it is not the case. Additional themes are not of any importance to me.
Thanks once again.
The issue is solved.