[Hamara-devel] Testing plymouth themes in debian

[shirish]

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On 05/20/2015 09:10 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
> I am facing issues here - could do with help if anyone has bandwidth.
>
> We should be able to test plymouth splash screens in debian by using
> plymouth-x11.
>
> What I am trying to do is run this in debian jessie on a kvm guest.
>
> Running:
> sudo plymouthd; plymouth --show-splash
>
> *should* run the splash screen - but it doesn't return anything.
>
> If anyone else can give this a try / figure it out, it would be really
> helpful.
>
>
> Vik

Hi Vikas,
I would have liked to but can't. I disabled plymouth years back and even 
went a bit more reverse in the sense of slowing the counter a bit when 
the system is just up and running. I had documented the process years 
back on my blog.

The reason being I'm a paranoid person by nature and have to know what 
the system is doing at any point of time. If there was a way to even 
open up the background process to see what they are doing every minute 
would have done that (I know it can be done but memory is a bit of an 
issue to keep track of the number of things I do and want to )

I even opened up aptitude so I can see the calls being made when each 
installation or purging of packages take place.

I'll be putting in place a machine dedicated for hamara early next month 
so these kind of experiments could be done, on this and other machines I 
have, this is just a no-no, sorry.

Bandwidth is not an issue here as both plymouth-x11 and plymouth-themes 
together are around an mb only ( at least the binaries)

[$] aptitude show plymouth-x11 
                                                            [21:32:15]
Package: plymouth-x11
State: not installed
Version: 0.9.0-9
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Maintainer: Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 109 k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), 
libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), plymouth (=0.9.0-9)
Recommends: plymouth-themes
Suggests: gdm
Description: boot animation, logger and I/O multiplexer - X11 renderer 
and log viewer
  Plymouth provides a boot-time I/O multiplexing framework - the most 
obvious use for which is to provide an attractive graphical animation in
place of the text messages that normally get shown during boot. (The 
messages are instead redirected to a logfile for later viewing.) 
However, in event-driven boot systems Plymouth can also usefully handle 
user interaction such as password prompts for encrypted file systems.

  This package contains the log viewer and the X11 renderer for a 
graphical boot splash.
Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth

[$] aptitude show plymouth-themes 
                                                            [21:46:51]
Package: plymouth-themes
State: not installed
Version: 0.9.0-9
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Maintainer: Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 866 k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), 
libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), plymouth (= 
0.9.0-9), fontconfig-config, fonts-dejavu-core | ttf-dejavu-core
Conflicts: plymouth-themes-all, plymouth-themes-fade-in, 
plymouth-themes-glow, plymouth-themes-script, plymouth-themes-solar, 
       plymouth-themes-spinfinity, plymouth-themes-spinner
Breaks: plymouth-drm (< 0.9.0-6~)
Replaces: plymouth-drm (< 0.9.0-6~), plymouth-themes-all, 
plymouth-themes-fade-in, plymouth-themes-glow, plymouth-themes-script, 
          plymouth-themes-solar, plymouth-themes-spinfinity, 
plymouth-themes-spinner
Provides: plymouth-theme, plymouth-themes-all, plymouth-themes-fade-in, 
plymouth-themes-glow, plymouth-themes-script, plymouth-themes-solar, 
plymouth-themes-spinfinity, plymouth-themes-spinner
Description: boot animation, logger and I/O multiplexer - themes
  Plymouth provides a boot-time I/O multiplexing framework - the most 
obvious use for which is to provide an attractive graphical animation in 
place of the text messages that normally get shown during boot. (The 
messages are instead redirected to a logfile for later viewing.) 
However, in event-driven boot systems Plymouth can also usefully handle 
user interaction such as password prompts for encrypted file systems.

  This package provides the following themes:

  * fade-in: features a centered logo that fades in and out while stars 
twinkle around the logo during system boot up.
  * glow: features a pie chart as progress indicator.
  * script: features a simple base theme.
  * solar: features a blue flamed sun with animated solar flares.
  * spinfinity: features a centered logo and animated spinner that spins 
in the shape of an infinity sign.
  * spinner: features a simple theme with a small spinner on a dark 
background.

Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth

Sorry again.
-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org