Creating a Text Plymouth

[Jeff Hoogland]

Ray,

Thanks for the response! I'd like to simply have a black background with the
words "Bodhi Linux" in green. maybe some small other blinking dot/moving bar
in green to let the user know the system is still booting.

~Jeff Hoogland

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Ray Strode <halfline at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Jeff Hoogland <jeffhoogland at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have been searching the net and digging through source code tearing my
> > hair out... How does one go about customizing a text plymouth for a
> system?
> Can you give a few more details about what you're trying to do?
>
> The source code for the "text" plymouth splash is in
>
> src/plugins/splash/text/plugin.c
>
> This plugin is run automatically when a graphical boot splash can't be
> loaded.
>
> It's the splash that has 3 competing colinear progress bars (written
> by Adam Jackson).
>
> As far as customization goes...
>
> Some of the splash plugins in plymouth support customization through
> their theme config files.
>
> For instance, the two-step plugin lets you specify a the theme config
> file where to align the animation on the screen,
> what directory to pull animation frames from, etc.
>
> The most customizable splash plugin is the "script" plugin (written by
> Charlie Brej).  It has an embedded interpreter for a custom scripting
> language. A lot of third party themes use the script plugin since you
> can get a pretty advanced splash without writing any C code.
>
> The text splash plugin isn't customizable without changing the source
> code, however.    If you explain what your end goal is, I can give you
> a run down on how you might get there.
>
> --Ray
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/plymouth/attachments/20110206/b02da4da/attachment.html>