On Sunday 28 October 2012 15:33:17 Oddball wrote:
Well, the bullets that show instead of the fonts inside the pw dialog box. The whole system uses these 'too big' dots everywhere. Me personally, I like little stars. Not dots, no matter how small they are. But smaller dots i like more than 'too big' dots.
So it is the KDE Display Manager. That one has a separate logfile located in /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/kdmrc. I am not sure however if you can indicate what kind of bullets you can have.
Why than, tell me, is it impossible to find out how and where to do that?
When we started to implement plymouth on openSUSE, we created this page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Plymouth There we kept record of the things missing, etc. That page also links to a very good site where the theming of plymouth is explained (http://brej.org/blog/?p=238). There the steps with regards to plymouth-set- default-theme is indicated.
Ubuntu has 2(!) managers created for doing that. You think that is done because everybody wants, or likes the pre-installed standard? No it is done, because they want to be able, to simply, change their backgrounds when the system boots... that is all. But probably opensuse lacks the skills to create, or simpler, makes the KDE one work with openSUSE122, or below. Or there is no time, because it is not on the priority list.
I don't know why suddenly now (when Plymouth is active) you are coming up with these type of complains. openSUSE has been using bootsplash before and that wasn't easy changeable either. But as with every opensource, people are free to choice what they want including distribution. I am nothing more than just a simple Linux user, who happened to choose openSUSE as his distribution and decided to help out in his free time. openSUSE is a community distribution, so if people are willing to help out we could correct all these things.
The user installs the theme and then as root executes the command `plymouth-set-default-theme -R <theme-name>`
Now we are getting somewhere... ;-)
With the next reboot the user will have the new theme active.
only if the user runs #mkinitrd, to generate a new 'initrd' used to boot the system. Indeed.
No. the -R command runs the minitrd process for the user. You can check the parameters by running plymouth-set-default-theme --help Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org