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https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/plymouth/plymouth/-/issues/135
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On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 15:29:01 +0200 Roderich Schupp
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for packaging the new plymouth release!
> However, the most anticipated (for me) feature doesn't work:
> themes using the two-step pluging (e.g. bgrt) are supposed to show
> a caps lock indicator when prompting, e.g. to unlock my encrypted
harddisk.
> There should also be a keyboard layout indicator ("us", "de" etc)
>
> The reason is that plymouth tries read to information about the
keyboard from
> /etc/vconsole.conf. This file comes from systemd, but Debian does not
> enable this feature. But Debian has /etc/default/keyboard which does
> the job as well. The first patch below is for
> src/libply-splash-core/ply-terminal.c to use the latter.
>
> But this will only work if this file is present in the initramfs
> so the second patch for /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth
> takes care of this.
>
> The last two patches are actually of type wishlist to improve
> the layout of the bgrt splash screen:
> - keep the ACPI logo and move prompts and messages below the ACPI logo
> - add a "Debian 10" logo (from desktop-base) to the bottom
> (about the same position as the same logo in gdm3)
>
> If all are applied the bgrt splash will look like the attached
screenshot.
>
Thanks for the report and the patch!
I've imported (and reworked) all of them, except the cosmetic change.
BUT, on my machine the CAPS lock icon is not showing with the bgrt even
with the patches
I've opened
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/plymouth/plymouth/-/issues/135 upstream
