Creating a Text Plymouth

[Jeff Hoogland]

So I've edited the color for the text plymouth but my console complains of
not being able to display the ascii code I gave it. Is there a list
somewhere of the background colors the next plymouth/console support?

~Jeff

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Jeff Hoogland <jeffhoogland at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>
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