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I have seen a Linux Box running a picture behind the console. Each console had a different picture. The console text was in front of the picture. Any idea how to do this? Which file to edit, or package/module to download? Thank you in advance for your help.
The system I saw had a background, outside of the X Window Manager. Each terminal (tty1, 2, 3, etc..) had a different wallpaper, as soon as he logged into the terminal he was at. Any ideas.
There are a few different ways to do this. Bootsplash, Gensplash, Splashy (does this?), depending on your distro a one or more may be specifically easy to set up.
I am using Slackware 10.2 kernel 2.6.15.2(well... trying to use). What file do I need to edit in order to add this background after installing Bootsplash or whichever? Thank you
Basicly you make a initrd image with the image and it's configuration file in it.
Here's a link to Gentoo how-to about this. It's easy enough to adapt to Slack http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_gensplash
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