Change Ubuntu 22.04 Boot and Login Screen Logo

Follow through this tutorial to learn how to change Ubuntu 22.04 boot and login screen logo. One of the customization you can do to your Ubuntu 22.04 instance is to change the desktop background, the login screen background, and of course the default boot logo.

For Ubuntu 22.04, the default boot logo is as shown in the screen below;

Change Ubuntu 22.04 Boot and Login Screen Logo

Change Ubuntu 22.04 Login Screen Logo

So, how can you change Ubuntu 22.04 login screen logo?

Well, first of all you need to know where the default Ubuntu 22.04 logo images are stored.

The logo at the bottom of the login screen;

Is stored under /usr/share/plymouth as ubuntu-logo.png.

The same logo is also used on the boot screen, but stored in a different location. We will look into that later.

So, if you want to change this login screen logo, then you have to copy your image to that directory and name it as ubuntu-logo.png.

For example, I want to use our Kifarunix image as Ubuntu 22.04 bottom login screen logo, then first of all backup the default image;

sudo cp /usr/share/plymouth/ubuntu-logo.png{,.bak}

Next, copy your image to /usr/share/plymouth directory naming it as ubuntu-logo.png.

sudo cp ~/Pictures/kifarunix.png /usr/share/plymouth/ubuntu-logo.png

When you log out, you should see that the default login screen logo is now changed!

Change Ubuntu 22.04 Boot Logo

Now, let’s see how you can change Ubuntu 22.04 boot logo.

Ubuntu 22.04 uses BGRT as the default splash screen Plymouth theme;

update-alternatives --list default.plymouth

Sample output;

/usr/share/plymouth/themes/bgrt/bgrt.plymouth

So where does this theme stores the default images under?

grep -i imagedir /usr/share/plymouth/themes/bgrt/bgrt.plymouth

Sample output;

ImageDir=/usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner

As you can see, the default images for this default splash screen theme are stored under /usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner directory.

Under this directory, we have some images used as boot screen logos as highlighted in this screenshot below;

/usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner/bgrt-fallback.png

/usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner/watermark.png

To change these images, copy and names your custom images as the names of the default logos names.

cp /usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner/bgrt-fallback.png{,.bak}

cp /usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner/watermark.png{,.bak}

Next, copy your images and name them as above;

sudo cp ~/Pictures/kifarunix-logo.png /usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner/bgrt-fallback.png

sudo cp ~/Pictures/kifarunix.png /usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner/watermark.png

Next, reboot and confirm that the images have been updated and that your Ubuntu 22.04 boot screen logo is changed.

Perfect, isn’t it?

And that is how you can change the boot and login screen logo on Ubuntu 22.04 hustle free!

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