From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 11 13:49:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA10019 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 13:49:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wcc.wcc.net (wcc.wcc.net [208.6.232.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA09886 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 13:48:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from piquan@wcc.wcc.net) Received: from detlev.UUCP (ppp54.wcc.net [208.6.232.54]) by wcc.wcc.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA01975; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 15:44:57 -0600 (CST) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.7) id PAA02503; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 15:47:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 15:47:32 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199801112147.PAA02503@detlev.UUCP> To: bsdhack@shadows.aeon.net CC: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199801111402.QAA02310@shadows.aeon.net> (message from mika ruohotie on Sun, 11 Jan 1998 16:02:18 +0200 (EET)) Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199801111402.QAA02310@shadows.aeon.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >> I'm also interested in seeing if a few things I found in the 2.2 version >> were/will be addressed. E.g.: >> >> - Splash should auto-dismiss itself when booting gets to the syscons >> login prompt (i.e. not running xdm) > why not make it a user selectable? > so that a user would be able to choose an option where the splash is > left after the boot complites, maybe even putting on another image > all together, and until some special key combination (user definable) > is pressed, leave it at that. the key combination would drop it to the > normal syscons login. wouldnt hurt having that key comb being predefined. > falling back into that splash when logging out would be nice too. It would seem to me that your best bet would be to consider making a custom version of 'getty' with libvgl, since getty is going to determine how idle time between logins should be handled. That's pretty well out of syscons's jurisdiction. Actually, making just such a thing just got put on my TODO list. -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped