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Topic: Question about splash screen [Solved sort of]

I noticed that inbetween the splash screen ending and GDM appearing, there is some text about startup stuff. Is there anyway to make the splash screen last longer or to hide the messages?

Personally I don't mind seeing that kind of stuff, but having a splash screen and then the messages afterwards seems weird to me.

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  • kelean
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Re: Question about splash screen [Solved sort of]

All get is text.  No splash screen at all.  I have never had one on either statler A1 or A2.

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Re: Question about splash screen [Solved sort of]

Ok I think I was getting confused with the grub2 screen.

After selecting a boot option, the image seems to linger for a couple seconds which kinda looks like a static splash screen.

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  • kelean
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Re: Question about splash screen [Solved sort of]

Ok I understand what you mean.  That is what I get also.  I think it looks very cool.

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Re: Question about splash screen [Solved sort of]

I get the Grub menu, then a bit of full-sized text, then it switches to something that looks a little bit more styled, then it switches to a somewhat smarter-looking font for a while then goes into the GDM screen.

It's fine for an alpha, but I think it would be nice to have a nice clean splash screen like Crunchbang 9.04 for the final release. Since usplash is on the way out, something with splashy I suppose.

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  • From: London
  • Registered: 2009-07-19
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Re: Question about splash screen [Solved sort of]

I noticed an error about some live-* services on that very first screen after Grub and it bothered me too. To fix it I fired up rcconf and removed all entries related to live-* from the runlevel.

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  • From: Scotland
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Re: Question about splash screen [Solved sort of]

Yeah, remember how sleek was the transition from grub to desktop in the last version. It looked really nice not having to see any text output/input, it just kind of made crunchbang look more professional. Damn, those days, I should go cry at distro-hoppers thread, I think I'm about to switch to 9.04 again!

  • From: London
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Re: Question about splash screen [Solved sort of]

No! I love the text. I love to see what's happening at boot - it's kinda like watching a beautiful engine at work. smile

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Re: Question about splash screen [Solved sort of]

@bozhkov:  If you really want the Ubuntu-like splash screen, you can install from the Debian repos.  It will probably install with the default Debian splash theme, but you can find many different themes online.

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Re: Question about splash screen [Solved sort of]

I have too much of an pure desktop experience with debian, it was really a headache to achieve the "splendid splash" I was talking about, this beautiful, yet plain and simple transition from my old friend gurb (grub-legacy, of course) to the desktop. Some years spent booting text input-output every morning just is not my thing any more. Too geeky and really, I haven't got enough problems in order for that to be helpful for solving them.

Cheers! Viva la 9.04!
Help! I'm already too close into booting the 9.04 lite cd with only one foreseeable end - the dreadful :install now"!