Re: Plymouth splash screen -

2018-04-26 Thread Chris Murphy
Is tribar installed? The plymouth set-default does nothing if the theme isn't installed. Anyone know what the plymouth initrd on /boot is for? --- Chris Murphy ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

2018-04-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
nitramfs with dracut? ___ Should it be of any interest Plymouth changed the splash screen displayed in a VM of Fedora 28 beta on this computer without any problems! I will wait until I have the new fedora 28 installed. I tried all the suggestions plus anything else I cou

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

2018-04-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 04/25/18 11:22, Samuel Sieb wrote: It should have.  I assume that the plymouth script runs dracut. However, I have tried changing the plymouth boot theme myself a couple of times and I don't think I've had any success. . That seems odd, but then I'm not alone. On this Fedora 27 it doesn't

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

2018-04-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/25/2018 01:49 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:    -f, --force    overwrite existing initramfs file. That left me uncertain of what would happen, it looked to me that it might make boot slower than what it is and the object of the exercise is simply to change a splash screen, not

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

2018-04-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
simply to change a splash screen, not worth creating new problems for me to work out of. Joe is exactly right, the man pages are good enough if you already have some familiarity with a command, but for something new to me they always seem to lack an example of the command I need. It is often

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

2018-04-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
situation, just run "dracut -f". +    -f, --force    overwrite existing initramfs file. That left me uncertain of what would happen, it looked to me that it might make boot slower than what it is and the object of the exercise is simply to change a splash screen, not wort

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

2018-04-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/24/2018 04:35 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Reading a program's man page, if there is one, is always a good idea. The problem with some man pages is that they're written in an overly terse fashion as though they're just meant as a reminder for people who already understand the program but

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

2018-04-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Samuel Sieb writes: On 04/24/2018 10:54 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: bobg]# Plymouth-set-default-theme tribar -R bobg]# Plymouth-set-default-theme tribar Although it shows the change to "tribar" it continues to display the original "spinner" when I reboot. Did you try regenerating the initramfs

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

2018-04-24 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/24/2018 02:47 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 04/24/18 17:10, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 04/24/18 16:56, Samuel Sieb wrote: Did you try regenerating the initramfs with dracut? No, I've never done that, is there an instruction for doing so? It looks like I could make things worse with dracut fro

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

2018-04-24 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 04/24/18 17:10, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 04/24/18 16:56, Samuel Sieb wrote: Did you try regenerating the initramfs with dracut? . No, I've never done that, is there an instruction for doing so? + + It looks like I could make things worse with dracut from what I find, |dracut --regenerate-

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

2018-04-24 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 04/24/18 16:56, Samuel Sieb wrote: Did you try regenerating the initramfs with dracut? . No, I've never done that, is there an instruction for doing so? -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 FEDORA-27/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3 ___

Re: Plymouth splash screen -

2018-04-24 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/24/2018 10:54 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: bobg]# Plymouth-set-default-theme tribar -R bobg]# Plymouth-set-default-theme tribar Although it shows the change to "tribar" it continues to display the original "spinner" when I reboot. Did you try regenerating the initramfs with dracut? _

Plymouth splash screen -

2018-04-24 Thread Bob Goodwin
. On this updated Fedora 27 with XFCE I have attempted to change the Plymouth screen several times, re-booted each time, and it always comes back with the same theme, I think it is called "spinner." I have another similarly configured computer and the same procedure worked without any problem

Re: Splash screen -

2016-10-24 Thread stan
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 09:57:29 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > For the last several versions of Fedora, back to F-22 and probably > before that, when I starttxfce the xffce splash screen I selected is > displayed for less than a second and immediately replaced by an ugly > gray s

Splash screen -

2016-10-24 Thread Bob Goodwin
. For the last several versions of Fedora, back to F-22 and probably before that, when I starttxfce the xffce splash screen I selected is displayed for less than a second and immediately replaced by an ugly gray screen with a "spinning worm" in the center that just does nothing

Plymouth Boot Splash Screen Doesn't Work in F21

2014-12-23 Thread Stephen Morris
I had plymouth configured to use the solar theme in F20 and when I used Fedup to upgrade to F21 plymouth did not retain the theme specification. I used command plymouth-set-default-theme solar --rebuild-initrd to set the theme back to what I want but this has not worked. The command did build i

Re: Splash screen for fc1[78] boot

2013-02-26 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 03:10:52PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Can someone point me to the proper documentation to use alternate splash > screen during boot? I want to use the solar theme from fc10, rather than the > boring default. My search seems to lead me to tidbits but not a &qu

Re: Splash screen for fc1[78] boot

2013-02-25 Thread Allann Jones
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Can someone point me to the proper documentation to use alternate splash > screen during boot? I want to use the solar theme from fc10, rather than the > boring default. My search seems to lead me to tidbits but not a "this is

Splash screen for fc1[78] boot

2013-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Can someone point me to the proper documentation to use alternate splash screen during boot? I want to use the solar theme from fc10, rather than the boring default. My search seems to lead me to tidbits but not a "this is how it works" document. -- Bill Davidsen We are not

Re: F18 Splash screen is not shown

2013-01-20 Thread Lailah
El vie, 18-01-2013 a las 11:12 -0500, Bill Davidsen escribió: > Animations in splash have gotten boring, I wish they would use something > exciting like the FC10 boiling surface of the sun instead of the "throbbing > meatball" as one student described it. > > > > I agree, I loved that sun.

Re: F18 Splash screen is not shown

2013-01-18 Thread antonio
Bill Davidsen ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 18/01/2013 17:12: Antonio M wrote: When I boot my updated F18, the usual splash screen is not shown, I see only the bar on the lowest part of the screen and some white lines boot process is completed fine: and here you will see

Re: F18 Splash screen is not shown

2013-01-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Antonio M wrote: When I boot my updated F18, the usual splash screen is not shown, I see only the bar on the lowest part of the screen and some white lines boot process is completed fine: and here you will see part of my grub2 configuration file, but I don't see anything strange