Re: Splash screen -
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 09:57:29 -0400
Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin(a)fastmail.us> wrote:
For the last several versions of Fedora, back to F-22 and probably
before that, when I starttxfce the xffce splash screen I selected is
displayed for less than a second and immediately replaced by an ugly
gray screen with a "spinning worm" in the center that just does
nothing else for perhaps ten seconds, in a vm it is has been nearly
30 seconds!
I do "# ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target
/etc/systemd/system/default.target" and startxfce4 from the text
screen if that matters ...
[snip]
Any suggestions appreciated,
I start X the same way, but for lxde. And it is never a gray screen.
It shows the mouse pointer in the middle of a completely black screen,
until the wallpapers I have selected come up.
So, that suggests to me that this isn't an X problem, and isn't a
startx problem, but is an xfce problem. There is probably logic in the
startxfce script that blanks the screen to this neutral color. You
could look at it and see. If it is the startxfce script, you could
change it to use your splash instead of the gray background.