How do you know if it will work or not if you don't try it...
You said you have:
for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do
splash -s -u$i -n /etc/bootsplash/themes/chosen_theme/config/bootsplash-WxH.cfg
done
in your rc.local... I don't get that anyway. To me, that looks like a very compressed version of rc.splash. I don't know. Guess I'm confused...
Looks like your bypassing running a seperate rc.splash by using that code in your rc.local. Your calling directly upon splash in your rc.local, ya know? Should work.....
I would try renaming your existing rc.splash (if you have one) and commenting out the stuff in your rc.local and then trying what I said above before you say it won't work... Just a thought. Good luck tho....
Also splash needs to point to the "current" directory... Maybe thats where you are going wrong. You need a symlink in /etc/bootsplash/themes, named 'current', that points to your theme folder name in the same directory... Make that symlink and change it to:
for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do
splash -s -u$i -n /etc/bootsplash/themes/current/config/bootsplash-WxH.cfg
done
I bet you it will work then..... You also don't have a splash jpg varibale set. Don't know if it needs to be set independently. It should be able to refrence your themes .cfg file for the picture.... Eh.... Your just compressing an awful lot of stuff there.... Makes me nervous..... I don't like short cuts...
Jon