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- Phantom1045, on 01/27/2009, -0/+8The thumbnail looked like the grim reaper to me.
- Markers, on 01/27/2009, -1/+7What the ***** are you doing still living in the 90's?
- Fabbyfubz, on 01/27/2009, -1/+7I built a time machine.
- SmSpillaz, on 01/27/2009, -0/+5And also, 'How to change your ____usplash____ screen in ubuntu' ... 'apt-get remove usplash && apt-get install splashy' WTF?
- srg13, on 01/27/2009, -2/+7They're moving to Plymoth eventually, so this will not be a problem for long... But really, is it a problem? Who wants to change their splash screen? It's something that you see for about ten seconds once a day at most... I mean, it's not like it's easy (or even possible without 3rd party hacks) in Windows or Mac OS X.
- SmSpillaz, on 01/27/2009, -0/+5Emerald is unsupported now. _no-one_ understands the code.
- pyry, on 01/27/2009, -6/+10From the article: "It gave me a feeling that I was back to the Windows 95 era."
Changing boot splash screens is also very Windows 95 era. - saftaplan, on 01/27/2009, -0/+4With articles like these, no wonder everyone thinks GNU/Linux is hard. This can be done waaaaay easier. Just click Applications -> Add/remove, and install Start-Up Manager. There you go, you now have a GUI where you can change your bootsplash.
There is not one OS that can do this as easily as Ubuntu. - pyry, on 01/27/2009, -2/+6You underestimate the progress Ubuntu has made off of mere splash screens?
- Markers, on 01/27/2009, -1/+4Good answer.
- SteveMax, on 01/27/2009, -0/+2FTA: "The package in Ubuntu is buggy, so remove it and install those random packages from the Web..."
Non-geeks shouldn't read this. This person is actively encouraging people to bypass their package managers and accept the idea of downloading ***** from whoever tells them to do so. Okay, in this case it looks like a Debian developer, but if you tell new users it's OK to install random stuff that complete strangers told them to download from some server, you are asking for some serious trouble.
This is doable inside the normal distro packages, with startupmanager (as you said). I'm burying this crap to avoid future problems. - darkharmonics, on 01/27/2009, -0/+2splashy is not the default editor for boot images. There actually is a gui for this! This article is a FARCE. Check out the "startupmanager" package from synaptic. You still might want to set a higher VGA mode for your kernel because that allows for better boot graphics. Windows uses a really ***** graphic for compatibility reasons.
- perspectoff, on 01/27/2009, -0/+1Yes, this article is very misleading. If you want to install the splashy utility, you can install it from the Add/Remove installer.
Or, if you insist on using the command line:
sudo apt-get install splashy splashy-themes
This type of article does a dis-service to the ease of use of Ubuntu/Kubuntu. - perspectoff, on 01/27/2009, -0/+1Also, this is not the default in Ubuntu. You can change the uSplash screen from the Startup Manager:
System -> Administration -> Startup Manager
You are advocating replacing default Ubuntu software and should be clear about that. - stroudma, on 01/28/2009, -0/+1huh, i kinda liked it. tons of glitches but the interface was pretty slick when it worked. and it opened up a lot of different theme options that compiz fusion wouldnt run
- darkharmonics, on 01/27/2009, -0/+1Why would anybody remove usplash? This is hacking up your boot manager for no good reason. Did anybody check out the startupmanager package? Its a gui interface for usplash
You still would want to set a higher framebuffer for the boot screen to add higher resolution pictures to your splash screen. Try hwinfo. You can install that command from synaptic gui or from a command line apt-get. Then to get the mode numbers you just type: sudo hwinfo --framebuffer. There should be a listing of modes with their associated screen resolutions. Put the mode number in your menu.lst like described in the article. For my computer the mode number was 0x0348 for 1400x1050 and 16bits resolution
I would not recommend this for most users. I mean who hacks up the windows boot screen. That is actually way harder to do than to edit the ubuntu splash screen. Honestly the non-geeks just wont care enough to bother. - jermsie, on 01/27/2009, -0/+1There's some fugly usplash themes out there.. wow.
- perspectoff, on 01/27/2009, -0/+0These are Splashy themes, no uSplash themes. The author of the article has misled you.
- kriukov, on 01/27/2009, -2/+2sudo apt-get purge usplash usplash-theme-ubuntu
- sudopeople, on 01/27/2009, -1/+0I'd say 99% of Linux users would love to change their boot screen if it was relatively easy.. That's why we use it, like you said, because we can, even if it is a little convoluted in Ubuntu.
- fandyllic, on 01/27/2009, -6/+5Ugh. Buried. If this is what you have to do, I guess I've underestimated the progress Ubuntu has made.
- fandyllic, on 01/27/2009, -4/+2No, based on the incredibly obtuse set of steps to change some splash screens. Ever heard of a GUI for settings? There is a rumor some people use them for those computery thingies.
- screwy3333, on 01/27/2009, -3/+1finally an easy way to bypass the Gnux kernel
- stroudma, on 01/27/2009, -4/+1yea, wait till you have emerald theme manager and compiz fusion installed. Things will become complicated very quickly changing these
still worth it though, especially if you can find a cool one - rodrigo74, on 01/27/2009, -9/+3In case you are wondering why such story ended up in the front page with 3 comments and 80 diggs, it's because it was submitted by a "power user", a.k.a. someone that learned how to game Digg.
- Erfus, on 01/27/2009, -13/+4Oh, I get it. Less Obama stories mean we're back to Ubuntu ones. Neat.
- Fabbyfubz, on 01/27/2009, -21/+1First!
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