[Hamara-devel] Testing plymouth themes in debian

[Vikas Tara]

On 20/05/15 17:10, Vikas Tara wrote:
> On 20/05/15 16:40, 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.
>>
> It *should* work like so:
> http://brej.org/blog/?p=158
>
Small update - setting the graphics driver to "vga" in virt-manager at 
least shows plymouth during boot up - so it is possible to test by 
continually rebooting a vm.

A bit tedious compared to the plymouth-x11 approach.