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09-26-2003, 12:48 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: Mandrake, Fedora, PCLinuxOS
Posts: 18
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Eliminate KDE 3.1 splash screen?
Hey.
I was just wondering if there was a way to eliminate the KDE startup splash screen.
The march of icons has me in the dumps, plus it's ugly.
I'm running: Mdk9.1, GDM, KDE3.1, on a p2-200Mhz w/custom kernel.
thnks.
-f 
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09-26-2003, 02:36 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Minnesota, USA
Distribution: Slack 10.0 w/2.4.26
Posts: 1,032
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Maybe, this is a guess, but maybe can you edit the image files that it loads and put something like a transparent channel on them, and then have whatever you want be the background?
Oh, and my computer beats your computer!
P1 200mhz MMX!~
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09-26-2003, 02:39 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Berkeley, CA
Distribution: Mac OS X Leopard 10.6.2, Windows 2003 Server/Vista/7/XP/2000/NT/98, Ubuntux64, CentOS4.8/5.4
Posts: 2,986
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what happens if he just deletes the *.PNG files? Then it will load nothing?
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09-26-2003, 04:52 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Minnesota, USA
Distribution: Slack 10.0 w/2.4.26
Posts: 1,032
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Would nothing load, or would he be prompted with a bunch of error messages?
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09-26-2003, 05:07 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 77
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On a P2 system you can still run MDK91? But shouldn't it work like snail on this kind of config? Cos even with my machine its pretty slow compared to Win2k
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09-26-2003, 05:08 PM
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LQ Addict
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: New York, NY
Distribution: gentoo, gentooPPC
Posts: 1,661
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the best way to do it is to edit /usr/bin/startkde
For mandrake9.1. the relevant lines are
if [ -e /usr/bin/ksplashml ]; then
ksplashml
else
ksplash
fi
It will look a bit different for other distros since the if part is mandrake specific. Basically look for ksplash in the script and comment out the relevant lines.
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09-26-2003, 05:47 PM
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Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 668
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go to www.kdelook.org and d/l some cool custom splash screens. Or make your own.
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09-27-2003, 03:00 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: Mandrake, Fedora, PCLinuxOS
Posts: 18
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geewhiz
Thanks for all the info. When I get it figured out, I'll post again.
BTW. mdk9.1 runs fine on my P2-200Mhz....
Well, it's usable anyway. I recompiled the kernel to the minimum amount of modules and configured it to be PII specific, so it's got a very slight speedup. S'ok.
peace
-f
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