What is a Splash screen? A splash screen is nothing but the picture that’s gets displayed in the background while booting the Linux operating system. You might be knowing that Grub (GRand Unified Bootloader) is the commonly used famous bootloader among major Linux distributions.

What is splash screen Ubuntu?

Plymouth is the application which provides the graphical “splash” screen when booting and shutting down an Ubuntu system. Note that on Ubuntu, Plymouth is considered to be the “owner” of the console device (/dev/console) so no application should attempt to modify terminal attributes for this device at boot or shutdown.

What is the splash screen How is it helpful?

The splash screen introduces the app and it is usually referred to as the load screen or boot screen. Now you know why it is so important. This screen appears when the app boots or loads, so this is the launch screen. There are no functional elements for this screen as such.