Op 28-10-12 14:31, Raymond Wooninck schreef:
On Sunday 28 October 2012 14:19:49 Oddball wrote:
Plymouth is not used for the login-manager. The login stuff that you see is used to present the user with a dialog box in case the user needs to enter a password (e.g. to unlock encrypted partitions, etc).
Ah, ok.
(and if so, what do i have to do to make the login dialog box smaller, and the too big pw dots smaller, to a distinguished small sized textbox, with small fonts?) Which dots are we talking about here ? Are we talking here about the login screen for either GDM, KDM or lightdm ? If so, then plymouth has nothing to do with this.
I still use the standard login manager used with 122. In 121 it was KDM3, same as now.
Do i conclude here is the place to change the size of the bullets? Again the question, which bullets are we talking about ? The white bullets moving over the screen during the boot process, the bullets shown when you have to enter a password to unlock an encrypted drive or the bullets shown when you enter your password and user for the desktop ?
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.
Is there a way to get you (or anyone you know) to create an interface to change these settings? The script you see there is part of a Plymouth theme. If a person doesn't like the theme, then he is free to select/install another theme. Plymouth itself does not offer any interfaces to change settings as that it is just a bootsplash and nothing more.
Why than, tell me, is it impossible to find out how and where to do that? I am not the only one that thinks differently about this. 'just a bootsplash' is what is shown on 'my' screen when i boot up my pc/laptop/pad/whatever. This goes for every user that wants to boot his/her whatever up, with opensuse. Since it is my screen, as it is my device, i want to be able to simply choose another picture, moving or not, so do many other people, most of th people i know, want to be able to change that/those images, to images they like, whenever they like, without fuss. 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.
You can not expect users to mess with these scripts, they'll ruin them... Why would an user mess with those scripts in the first place ?
Right, he/she should not. That is why it has to be easy to find the right way to change these settings, so nobody ever has to find, or even know of the existence of it. (except someone like yourself, creating or maintaining it.)
The user is free to choose another theme if he doesn't like the default one. There are plenty around on the internet. The user installs the theme and then as root executes the command `plymouth-set-default-theme -R <theme-name>`. With the next reboot the user will have the new theme active.
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. Thanks Raymond. I really appreciate your input. I will try this 'manual', and when/if it works with no extra hassle, i will create/update a/the wiki-entry for it, for oS122.
Regards Raymond
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