[Splashy-users] Splashy 0.2.1 on Gentoo
Ken Cobler
kcobler at coblercorp.com
Tue Dec 5 19:32:00 CET 2006
Greetings Splashy users.
I wanted to comment on being able to get Splashy to run as the silent
boot splash on Gentoo Linux. I like the idea of using user-space
programs and not messing around with the kernel, if I can avoid it.
Splashy fit the need exactly.
1. It was not clear from the directions or the comments generated in
the splashy_config utility that you must give the absolute path for
fonts in <font></font> tags for textbox.
2. The splashy_config utility generates a theme.xml file with
<height></height> tags inside the the <font></font> tags. Only after
reviewing the code in splashy_video.c did I discover that the tag is
really <size></size> not <height></height> to specify the size of the font.
3. When running splashy as part of the rc scripts, I tried to issue a
"splashy_update exit" to terminate splashy. This works from a shell,
but not inside the rc script. To get it to work in the rc script, I had
to perform a "killall -9 splashy" to terminate splashy at the
appropriate time during rc.
Ken Cobler
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