Re: Modified start-stop-daemon and possible boot logo (was: Translation of init scripts)
On Jul 14, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 01:35:51PM -0500, James Curbo wrote:
> I started to reply to this and tell you that this idea is SICK and WRONG,
> but then it crossed my mind that it or something like it might be possible
> given a number of factors all of which have to be met. The first of which
> is definitely going to have to be a framebuffer. The next is that it be
> able to be shut off, a number of us prefer text where possible.
>
Trust me, I wouldn't like to see it done for my own benefit. I would much
rather have very techincal and textual boot messages, like we have now,
as the default. But there are plenty of people coming into the Linux (and
Debian) world who this would appeal to. (read: Windows/Mac users) It's just
an idea that popped in my head when I reading the start-stop-daemon thread.
>
> > and so on. Each package could have a logo that it would show on boot, of
> > a standard size so as to line up the boot messages, and to make things
> > prettier overall. The project's logo could be used (like Apache's) or a
> > generic one (like the keyboard map loading) but either way it would be
> > a very quick way to see what is going on. Of course this would have to be
> > implemented with framebuffers (unless someone came up with a cool ASCII art
> > way of doing it), a hacked start-stop-daemon, and a logo in every package
> > that is going to have something in /etc/init.d/ (probably a change in
> > policy would be required for that)... but it would be really cool to see
> > your machine boot up this way :)
>
> Default for things which don't provide their own, and the init script
> would have to do it not start-stop-daemon.
Agreed.
Are there any programs that display graphics using a framebuffer yet?
This would be interesting:
% display blah.gif
+----------------+
| blah.gif |
+----------------+
%
... or a suitable mode change (like zgv) for larger graphics.
>
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