I was installing a new kernel and wanted a bootsplash theme. So I installed the splash themes packages:
emerge media-gfx/bootsplash-themes media-gfx/splash-themes-gentoo media-gfx/splash-themes-livecd
But then I dearly missed an overview of all the themes to choose one. I found no splash-theme selector or anything, so it seemed I had to do it myself. Fortunately the themes are fairly ordered and nicely named, one can easily create a little gallery of those:
mkdir /tmp/pics
cd /tmp/pics
for i in `find /etc/splash |grep -i 1024x768 |grep -i cfg| sed -e 's/\.\///g'|xargs cat |grep -i pic=|awk -F= '{print $2}'`; do cp $i /tmp/pics/${i//\//_} ; done
rename '_etc_splash_' '' *
rename '_images' '' *
The last two lines are just to create a little bit nicer names. Now you have a gallery of the silent and verbose images of each theme (that has an 1024x768 cfg) in /tmp/pics. Have fun selecting your favorite theme.
Here is the output gallery:
