Am Donnerstag, 6. August 2015, 11:25:09 schrieb ianseeks:
I have a backup script that runs on "logout" that tends to run while the splash screen is displayed
Which splash screen do you mean here? plymouth? I.e. is the script running _after_ the plasma session is closed?
is there anyway in Plasma that i can post some progress messages onto the splash screen image as my script runs? If not, are there any plans to allow this?
And how should this work? Plasma has nothing to do with the splash screen, and doesn't even know that it exists. You could try to use kdialog in your script or open an xterm/konsole window, but that only works if your script runs before the session is closed of course. It might be possible to display messages on the plymouth splash screen (I'm not sure, but the "display-message" option sounds promising), have a look at "man plymouth". But if your script is to be run during system shutdown, why don't you just start it in /etc/init.d/halt.local or similar then? "echo"s would go to the system log then, or the text console. Otherwise you probably have a race condition anyway. The script would probably just get killed if it doesn't finish in time before the system is shutdown. Or am I misunderstanding something here? Kind Regards, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org