I have plymouth source from git and have already done autoconf automake ./configure make on fedora 10. It builds everything and the .so files are generated. I have been using the spinfinity plugin as a test. I modified 1 line in the animation function so that the spinny throbber image should appear at 1/4 screen width rather than center(a simple test to start with). line 206 in spinfinity plugin.c [code] area.width / 4.0 - width / 2.0, [/code] When I: 1) copy the spinfinity.so file that was generated in the .libs directory to /usr/lib64/plymouth 2) copy the spinfinity folder to /usr/share/plymouth/spinfinity 3) /usr/sbin/plymouth-set-default-plugin spinfinity 4) /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd it does not work. I get the fallback to the white-blue progressbar. What is the proper way to install a plugin? I know there isn't any documentation on plugins yet, but I might be able to help somewhat if I could even test some of my own code. Also, I am familiar with usplash. Is it possible to make a plugin from a single makefile in a plugin directory somewhere else on my harddrive rather than having to make the whole source? I can barely understand Makefiles as is but all this automake .in .am stuff just further adds to the confusion.