Splash Screens
 

Any of you guys know how to change the graphical elements of either the bootsplash or kde loading splash screens? I have a boot utility in kde for configuring the lilo and boot splashes but they arent working. It keeps telling me I have to select an image first even though I already have. Id rather go in and change the images manually anyhow, but dont know how to do this.

I did this with the bootsplash. I couldnt figure out where the image was being called from but I could find the original image and so I overwrote the image with a new one I found that was intended for a desktop background. This was a mistake, cause now I get no image at all while booting, and the original image is gone of course.

I would like to learn how to make splash screens, but I couldnt find any resources for such learning on the internet. I was hoping the directions to installing some prepackaged themes would help give me an idea of where to look or how they work but the directions dont make sense to me. For example, here is a direction I found:

-Open konqueror
-Create the directory ~/.kde/share/apps/ksplash/pics
-Browse to ~/.kde/share/apps/ksplash/pics
-Move and uncompress your new splash screen file into the konqueror window
-Have fun! :-)

What I dont understand is, if Im creating a directory with a path that is
~/.kde/share/apps/ksplash/pics, how is this supposed to get loaded during the kde loading?, Being that I just created that location. It looks to me as if your supposed to just look at it in your browser, which is not a splash screen, its an image preview. Why do they tell me to load a splash screen into my browser?

I want to keep playing around with everything until I figure it out, but I already lost my lilo splash as Ive said. Im afraid of doing more damage. Id rather have the old splash then no splash.

Depending on exactly what you mean by "bootsplash", you need one of two places:

For the small logo that comes up on framebuffer screens, see http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=376 That should also have some info about where the file has to go, and what other steps are involved. (I haven't ever done it myself, so this is in the "hope it helps" category. I'm not certain, but I believe you need to re-compile the kernel to change that logo (it's not a file displayed by the kernel, it's actually something in the kernel).

If you want a full-page background, see http://www.bootsplash.org/ The front page says you'll need to patch the kernel, which definitely means you'll need to recompile it. (The reason these have to be compiled into the kernel is that they're being displayed before any filesystems have been opened up. If the kernel doesn't have it internally, it hasn't got it a all, at that stage.

And for KDE, first answer I found was right here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/32810

If you want to save yourself some time, I found that info by googling for

linux boot splash

linux boot logo (after the "splash" stuff didn't show me anything about the small picture I'm used to seeing, and one of the pages from the "splash" stuff mentioned "boot logo".)

and

kde splash


Hope this helps,

CHL