Marcus Lundblad <ml_at_update.uu.se> writes:
> On Mon, 20 May 2002, Stephen Dennison wrote:
>
> > Is there really no one on the list who can help me?
> >
> > On Thu, 16 May 2002, Stephen Dennison wrote:
> >
> > > When fvwm starts up, I can see the background being set, I see the
> > > applications start up for the pager, and then they are swallowed by the
> > > pager and somewhere along the way the banner pops up just before Fvwm is
> > > done loading.
> > >
> > > Is there some sort of support in fvwm to show a splash screen, wait for
> > > fvwm to finish starting up, and then display the desktop? (Would
> > > FvwmBanner do something like this for me without using too large of an
> > > image?) This would hide the background stuff and make the startup look
> > > better on my system.
> > >
>
> I think you can use FvwmBanner to do this
> In InitFunction (or StartFunction if you want to show this for restarts
> also).
>
> AddToFunc InitFunction I Module FvwmBanner
> .... # some other initialisation here...
> + I KillModule FvwmBanner
>
> Then you need to configure FvwmBanner to show a fullscreen picture and
> have a longer time out than the default 3 seconds.
>
> *FvwmBanner: Pixmap <your pixmap>
> *FvwmBanner: TimeOut 10 # wait for 10 s (replace 10 if too short)
> *FvwmBanner: NoDecor # turn off window decorations
That gets close, but doesn't really do all the things
Stephen asked for.
To suppress the desktop,
there used to be a -blackout commmand line option that
just blacked out the display during startup, but that was
removed. That didn't allow for a splash screen though.
FvwmEvent gets a message at "end_config_info" perhaps that
could be used instead of a timeout to remove the splash screen.
To hide the desktop, perhaps you could find a program that created
a full screen window and put that window in the top layer.
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Received on Mon May 20 2002 - 08:10:25 BST