[Hamara-devel] Testing plymouth themes in debian

[Vikas Tara]

On 22/05/15 13:19, Vikas Tara wrote:
> 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.
>
Success!

It seems setting the vga driver also allows you to run (as root):
plymouthd; plymouth --show-splash

Now that's over, on with porting the theme..