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# Fbsplash

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Fbsplash (formerly gensplash) is a userspace implementation of a splash screen for Linux systems. It provides a graphical environment during system boot using the Linux framebuffer layer.

## Installation

### Fbsplash

The fbsplash package is available in the AUR. For console backgrounds (discussed later in this article) you should install a kernel patched with fbcondecor such as linux-fbcondecor.

### Scripts

The fbsplash package provides the scripts for basic functionality. If you want more bells and whistles, like smooth progress, filesystem-check progress messages, support for boot-services/'daemons'-icons and theme hook scripts, you may also install the fbsplash-extras package.

### Themes

Themes can be found by searching the AUR for fbsplash-theme, in GNOME-Look.org or in KDE-Look.org.

Note: The package fbsplash does not contain a default theme.

### Suspend to Disk

If you want suspend to disk with Uswsusp using Fbsplash, install the uswsusp-fbsplash package from the AUR. Additionally there is limited support for using Fbsplash in the tuxonice-userui package for those using a kernel with the TuxOnIce patch.

## Configuration

### Kernel Command Line

You now need to set something like `quiet loglevel=3 logo.nologo gfxpayload=keep console=tty1 splash=silent,fadein,fadeout,theme:arch-banner-icons` as you kernel command line parameters in your bootloader. See Kernel parameters for more info.

The parameter `loglevel=3` prevents kernel messages from garbling the splash even with funny hardware (as recent initscripts do not set this by default any more). `quiet` is needed additionally for silencing initcpio messages. `logo.nologo` removes the boot logo (not needed with linux-fbcondecor since it does not have one anyway). `console=tty1` redirects system messages to tty1 and `splash=silent,fadein,fadeout,theme:arch-banner-icons` creates a silent, splash-only boot with fading in/out arch-banner-icons theme.

### Configuration Files

Put one or more of the themes you installed into `/etc/conf.d/splash`. You can also specify screen resolutions to save some initcpio space:

    /etc/conf.d/splash

    SPLASH_THEMES="
        arch-black
        arch-banner-icons/1280x1024.cfg
        arch-banner-noicons/1280x1024.cfg"

Note: The theme arch-banner-icons contains mainly symlinks to arch-banner-noicons. So if one of them is included in total, not much space will be saved by limiting the resolutions.

If you start Xorg using a DAEMON (kdm, gdm, etc.), also set the appropriate `rc.d-script` name to avoid VT/keyboard struggle between Xorg and the splash daemon:

    SPLASH_XSERVICE="gdm"

Note: Fbsplash will be stopped without changing to the tty1 console before the named script is started. If not set (or not enabled in DAEMONS), Fbsplash is stopped at the very end of Rc.multi. In the latter case it will change to the tty1 console if not booting into runlevel 5.

## Starting Fbsplash early in the initcpio

If uresume and/or encrypt HOOKS are used, add fbsplash after them in `/etc/mkinitcpio.conf`, e.g.:

    /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

    HOOKS="base udev autodetect [...] keymap encrypt uresume fbsplash"

Rebuild your initcpio via mkinitcpio. See the Mkinitcpio article for more info.

Tip: For a quick resume, it is recommended to put uswsusp before fbsplash or even drop `fadein`, if using a Fbcondecor kernel.

If you have trouble getting fbsplash to work and your machine uses KMS (Kernel Mode Setting), try adding the appropriate driver to mkinitcpio.conf.

## Console backgrounds

If you have a kernel that supports Fbcondecor (eg. linux-fbcondecor), you can get nice graphical console backgrounds beside the splash screen. Just search the AUR for fbsplash-theme.

After installing your patched kernel and fbsplash, add `fbcondecor` to your `DAEMONS` array in `/etc/rc.conf`:

    /etc/rc.conf

    DAEMONS=(... fbcondecor ...)

There is also a configuration file `/etc/conf.d/fbcondecor` to set up the virtual terminals to be used.

You may even boot up with a nice console background and the plain Arch Linux boot messages instead of a splash screen. Just change your kernel command line to use the verbose mode:

    quiet console=tty1 splash=verbose,theme:arch-banner-icons

## Links

- http://fbsplash.alanhaggai.org
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/fbcondecor/

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