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I know that all the text and stuff displayed when debian starts up is informative and useful, but I was wondering if there was a way to show something more aestheticall pleasing as the system is starting, like there is in Ubuntu. Is this possible?
I know that all the text and stuff displayed when debian starts up is informative and useful, but I was wondering if there was a way to show something more aestheticall pleasing as the system is starting, like there is in Ubuntu. Is this possible?
I'm running Lenny right now.
Thanks!
I really appreciate the fact that my Debian Etch box displays all of that information on boot-up. This is a very useful function particularly if things go awry (you get some useful error messages). Slackware does the same thing (FreeBSD as well).
Each to his own:-) My point is that I would be hesitant with disabling this useful feature.
As allez says, bootsplash may make you happier. I don't believe Debian includes this by default, but it is in the repositories for both Stable and Testing so you can install using apt-get install splashy.
Last edited by pentode; 08-06-2008 at 12:40 PM.
Reason: Corrected Package name
mail:~$ aptitude search splash
p bootsplash - Enables a graphical boot screen
v bootsplash-theme -
p bootsplash-theme-debian - The bootsplash theme debian
p debian-edu-artwork-usplash - debian-edu artwork for usplash
p gnome-splashscreen-manager - manage your GNOME splash screen images
p grub-splashimages - a collection of great GRUB splashimages
p ksplash - the KDE splash screen
p ksplash-engine-moodin - fading splash screen engine for KDE
p libtk-splashscreen-perl - Toplevel mega widget to display a splashscreen
p linux-patch-bootsplash - Bootsplash enables a graphical boot screen (kernel-patch)
p usplash - Userspace bootsplash utility
I know that all the text and stuff displayed when debian starts up is informative and useful, but I was wondering if there was a way to show something more aestheticall pleasing as the system is starting, like there is in Ubuntu. Is this possible?
I'm running Lenny right now.
Thanks!
I was thinking on the same lines but stopped because I wanted to investigate if adding "splashy" would actually slow down the boot process.
Will splashy slow me down? I definitely don't want that.
I do realize that the info is useful, would there be a way to configure it so that if you were to press F2 or something it would switch back to the information?
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