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Bro.Tiag Pooh-Bah
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 Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:55 am Post subject: pvdl, regarding yur "tux swats windows moth" post |
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Peter,
Since we are not supposed to ask questions in the Documentation
section, I'll ask here. How did you take a screenshot of yur Grub Menu?
I have several custom bootsplashscreens I oft time change round &
would like to post them
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| pvdl-of-afu.com Linspire King
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| Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 8:18 am Post subject: Re: pvdl, regarding yur "tux swats windows moth" p |
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| Bro.Tiag wrote: | Peter,
Since we are not supposed to ask questions in the Documentation section, I'll ask here. How did you take a screenshot of yur Grub Menu? |
Yes, of course. I did it with my trusty Pentax 750Z camera. There
is not any way to do it with a Linux application, since Linux is not
running at this point.
Another way to do it is to run a PC emulator like VMWare, and take an application screenshot of that app running.
Looking forward to seeing your boot images!
This is the thread Bro' is referring to http://forum.linspire.com/viewtopic.php?t=409802
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| Bro.Tiag Pooh-Bah
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| Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:13 am Post subject: Re: pvdl, regarding yur "tux swats windows moth" p |
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| pvdl-of-afu.com wrote: |
I did it with my trusty Pentax 750Z camera.
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Rat's! I figured as much. Hum should I try and figure out VMWare or Herself's new Kodak CX7525 & LPhoto. Hum.
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| webmaster349 Newbie Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Total posts: 3 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:41 am Post subject: Where to enter the commands |
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I'm reading your sub-link correctly, should I be looking for a place to
enter the commands for the Boot Screen within the program you
recommended from CNR? Thanks, very interesting spin on Linux
customization. I think the more little things possible the more will
convert. Great job Obi-Wan of Linux! |
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| pvdl-of-afu.com Linspire King
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:25 am Post subject: Re: Where to enter the commands |
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| webmaster349 wrote: | | If
I'm reading your sub-link correctly, should I be looking for a place to
enter the commands for the Boot Screen within the program you
recommended from CNR? |
No.
The CNR download I mentioned is simply a command line program to do
image manipulation (sizes and colors). All of the commands I mentioned
will be entered in a command window (the convert, the gzip, the move
and the edit of menu.lst).
You get a command window by clicking Launch, Run Command, then type "konsole" in the textfield that appears.
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| Dave Kelly Pooh-Bah
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:55 am Post subject: Re: Where to enter the commands |
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That was a nice tip and exercise. Thanks.
I know how to change the desktop screen. There are a couple of other screens during boot. Can those be changed? How?
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| pvdl-of-afu.com Linspire King
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 3:13 am Post subject: Re: Where to enter the commands |
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| Cealleigh wrote: | | There are a couple of other screens during boot. Can those be changed? How? |
Yeah! I would particularly like to be able to put up a different
background instead of the lengthy "progress bar" during shut down and
start up.
I have not yet looked into how to do this. If anyone does have an easy procedure, please tell it!
Peter
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| Bro.Tiag Pooh-Bah
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 3:15 am Post subject: Re: Where to enter the commands |
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| Cealleigh wrote: | That was a nice tip and exercise. Thanks.
I know how to change the desktop screen. There are a couple of other screens during boot. Can those be changed? How? |
Yes & there is a long and convoluted thread regarding such.Changing Linspire Login Greeting
And if I didna have a meeting to go to in a few minutes I would pull
the important stuff out for you. I have changed my Grub
BootSplashImage, SplashImage (the one that can have the process bar or
text during loading), my Usere Login Screan and the KDE BootSplash.. So
have a read & I'll check bak in after me meeting.
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| Dave Kelly Pooh-Bah
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:43 am Post subject: Re: Where to enter the commands |
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| Bro.Tiag wrote: | | So have a read & I'll check bak in after me meeting. |
Most excellent. Thanks.
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| Bro.Tiag Pooh-Bah
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:55 pm Post subject: Re: Where to enter the commands |
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| Cealleigh wrote: | | Bro.Tiag wrote: | | So have a read & I'll check bak in after me meeting. |
Most excellent. Thanks. |
To sum up the gist of said thread, here is what Jasp posted on 05 May 2005,
| Jasp wrote: |
1) Bootsplash:
The bit with the progress bar is handled by the kernel bootsplash.
Files are in: /usr/share/bootsplash/themes/ and require mkinitrd to be
run
2) LDM:
The login screen is handled by ldm and files are in: /usr/share/apps/ldm/themes/. Need to tar and gzip the required files
3) KSplash
The 'Welcome to Linspire' section is handled by a theme engine and files are in /usr/share/apps/ksplash/Themes/
4) Grub BootSpashImage "my name for it"
The nice image one gets with their grub menu, that Peter has already explained how to modify & change.
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1) Bootsplash:
The bit with the progress bar is handled by the kernel bootsplash.
Files are in: /usr/share/bootsplash/themes/ and require mkinitrd to be
run.
Once you have a nice jpg that you want to use it needs to be sized to
640x480. Then you have two options, one is to rename it silent.jpg and
then move it to /usr/share/bootsplash/themes/,
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edit yur /usr/share/bootsplash/themes/default/config/bootsplash.cfg
and change the entries in there to point to different images. The line
'silentjpeg =' represents the image normally shown on bootup. The line
starting 'jpeg=' is the image shown if you press Esc on bootup.
Then do a mkinitrd to make your changes active.
2) LDM:
The login screen is handled by ldm and files are in: /usr/share/apps/ldm/themes/. Need to tar and gzip the required files
This is, for me at least, the toughest one of the lot. The first
thing that has to be done is to sort out yur SplashImage. Make a test
directory & copy yur SplashImage there, then untar one of the
.ldmtheme files from /usr/share/apps/ldm/themes/ into yur test
directory. That will yield the following files, Linspire-5.0-login.jpg,
themerc, go.png, restart.png, shutdown.png and yur SplashImage. Delete
the Linspire-5.0-login.jpg and rename yur SplashImage
Linspire-5.0-login.jpg. Next you have to tar the whole directory with
yur ThemeName and then gzip it with .ldmtheme as the extention. Once
that is done copy it to /usr/share/apps/ldm/themes/. Next edit
/etc/kde3/ldmrc with
[Theme]
#theme = Linspire5.0
theme = MyTheme.ldmtheme
[AutoLogin]
suppressText=true
Reboot, you will of course have to have some users added. There is also
a way to remove some of the text, if you read further and DL another
one of Jasp's packages, ldm_1.35-0.0.0.50.linspire0.2-jasp0.1_i386.deb and run dpkg -i ldm_1.35-0.0.0.50.linspire0.2-jasp0.1_i386.deb (thou you knew that).
3) KSplash
The 'Welcome to Linspire' section is handled by a theme engine and files are in /usr/share/apps/ksplash/Themes/
There are lots of nice SplashImages one can DL from KDE-Look.
They can then be somewhat modified to taste. Additionaly, Jasp offered
a theme engine he made for a nice custom Linspire Splash. los-ksplash-jasp_0.1_i386.deb
, DL it & run: dpkg -i los-ksplash-jasp_0.1_i386.deb (again you
knew that). Then go to 'splash screen' in the control centre. Select
LinspireJasp. Apply settings and you have a new theme engine installed.
The welcome text can be changed by now editing the file:
/usr/share/apps/ksplash/Themes/LinspireJasp/Theme.rc .
Well this is a bit more of a summary but prolly not a very good
How-To. But you should get the gist of how to do things. I guess I'm
gonna have to figure out Herself's camera & LPhoto so I can post
what I have done.
Cheers
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| Dave Kelly Pooh-Bah
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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Bro.Tiag..................
This is excellent information. You have given us the where and how
to change the image and Peter has given us how to minipulate the image.
Now lets see some screens.
Dave
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| Bro.Tiag Pooh-Bah
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Cealleigh wrote: | Bro.Tiag..................
This is excellent information. You have given us the where and how
to change the image and Peter has given us how to minipulate the image.
Now lets see some screens.
Dave |
Well they are a bit shite, I need to brush up on me photo skills. But here you are for the time being.
Main Grub SplashImage, some might reconize the snap, but it ta't me.
Advanced Grub SplashImage, from anothe distro.
Boot loading SplashImage.
Login Screen, credit noted, I didna make it.
A customized KDE SplashImage.
The Ending of the custom KDE SplashImage just before me Desktop loads.
I'll try and clean thes up better & make them smaller, but for now, I'm off ta bed.
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| pvdl-of-afu.com Linspire King
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:33 am Post subject: |
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Bro -- those are really awesome screens, and some terrific guidance! Thanks.
Can you or Jasper please give more details on exactly what is needed here:
| Quote: | | Then do a mkinitrd to make your changes active. |
Make initial ram disk is not a simple command, and it has many
options and whim-whams. It looks like you were able to do the right
thing, because one of your screen examples is the "progress bar" screen
I think.
Thanks,
Peter
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| Bro.Tiag Pooh-Bah
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:14 am Post subject: |
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| pvdl-of-afu.com wrote: | Bro -- those are really awesome screens, and some terrific guidance! Thanks.
Can you or Jasper please give more details on exactly what is needed here:
| Quote: | | Then do a mkinitrd to make your changes active. |
Make initial ram disk is not a simple command, and it has many
options and whim-whams. It looks like you were able to do the right
thing, because one of your screen examples is the "progress bar" screen
I think.
Thanks,
Peter |
Actually Peter, it's really as simple as opening yur console & typing
At least that is what I did. I dona remember if I did it before or
after I DLed pvdl-aisles, but I suppose in yur case you dona need that
aisles.
Cheers
ps If you can still go to the old forum, this post Re: Changing Linspire Login Greeting, set things to Threaded, you might be able to follow some of the discussion better.
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| Jasp Veteran Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Total posts: 1379 Location: Reading, UK Age: 30 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:50 am Post subject: |
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I've just been informed of this fabulous thread.
It has been about 2 months since I looked into this customisation so I have doubtless forgotten everything.
err BRB... better switch to Linspire... cut and pasting across VPC isn't fun
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| Jasp Veteran Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Total posts: 1379 Location: Reading, UK Age: 30 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:54 am Post subject: |
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mkinitrd script does the right thing without any special coercing I
believe. The key part here is that it also calls mkinitrd-splash.sh
with takes the info in
/usr/share/bootsplash/themes/default/config/bootsplash.cfg and
magically shoves it into the ramdisk.
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| Jasp Veteran Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Total posts: 1379 Location: Reading, UK Age: 30 Gender: Unknown |
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 I've just seen the grub image you posted Peter. Very appropriate for a multi-boot system.
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