debugging plymouth scripts

[wayne smith]

Thanks for the reply. Great tutorials by the way. Currently I'm using the
--debug flag with plymouthd. I would like to display the current value of a
counter (progress), I think Image.Text will do it. I'll give it a try.

Thank you.

W. Smith

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Charlie Brej <plymouth at brej.org> wrote:

> On 07/21/2010 10:19 PM, wayne smith wrote:
>
>> Hello plymouth-list,
>>
>> I am trying to develop a small plymouth theme that cycles through
>> images. Is there a way I can debug my plymouth script? I have looked at
>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth, but I cannot find a
>> suitable method to debug scripts.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> W. Smith
>>
>
> There are some tutorials here:
> http://brej.org/blog/?cat=16
> and a list of functions here:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth/Scripts
>
> When testing, run plymouthd with:
> "--debug --debug-file=/tmp/plymouth-debug-out"
> and see if there were any warnings there.
>
> Try showing values using Image.Text and setting a sprite to place the
> generated image on the screen.
>
> Would you like a function to print things out to the debug log? Paste your
> script somewhere and ask in #plymouth on irc.freenode.net.
>
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