Tiago's Incredible Boot Screen (TIBS)

Tiago's Incredible Boot Screen (TIBS) is a (🚧 Work In Progress) boot animation program and display manager written in Rust. Designed to replace tools like Plymouth, SDDM, and GDM, TIBS delivers a smooth, modern boot experience by rendering animations with OpenGL.

Current state of the UI:

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Features

• Early Boot Animation: Provides a seamless and visually appealing boot screen right from the start of the boot process.

• Direct DRM Rendering: Uses DRM powered by Aquamarine from Hyprland instead of relying on a wayland compositor like most display managers which makes it boot up incredibly fast.

• OpenGL-Powered Graphics: You can throw all your lame plymouth themes, now you can theme your splash screen with custom shaders and crazy animations.

• Smooth Transition to the Login screen: Since tibs is both a display manager and a splash screen, the transition between the boot animation and the display manager is seemless, creating a more polished experience that is impossible to replicate with existing tools.

Planned Features

• Manage sessions and make login actually work
• hyprlock replacement
• Toml configuration
• Lua theming

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Installation

Building from Source

1. Clone the Repository:

   git clone https://github.com/coffeeispower/tibs.git
   cd tibs

2. Build with Cargo:

   cargo build --release

   The compiled binary will be located at target/release/tibs.

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NixOS Integration

TIBS includes a built-in NixOS module for easy integration. To activate TIBS on NixOS, import the TIBS NixOS module from the flake and enable it in your configuration:

{
    # ...
    imports = [
        inputs.tibs.nixosModules.tibs
    ];
    tibs.enable = true;

    # IMPORTANT: Disable all display managers and Plymouth to avoid conflicts.
    services.displayManager.sddm.enable = false;
    services.displayManager.gdm.enable = false;
    services.displayManager.ly.enable = false;
    boot.plymouth.enable = false;

    # Include the appropriate graphics driver in the initramfs.
    # This might be different depending on your gpu and what
    # kind of driver your using
    # This is to prevent tibs from starting with a dummy driver
    # and then crashing when the real driver loads
    boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ "i915" ];
    boot.initrd.systemd.enable = true;

    # OpenGL is, of course, also required for tibs to work properly
    hardware.graphics = {
        enable = true;
        extraPackages = with pkgs; [
            intel-media-driver # LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD
            libvdpau-va-gl
        ];
    };

    # ...
}

This configuration launches TIBS as a systemd service immediately after the initramfs stage which requires some systemd and initramfs hackery to work properly, so this NixOS module already sets everything up for you.

License

TIBS is distributed under the AGPL-3.0 License. See the LICENSE file for details.

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Contact

For issues, feature requests, or contributions, please open an issue on GitHub or contact me at tiagodinis33@proton.me or chat with me on discord (username: coffeeispower).