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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 ...
This is not a real problem but an annoyance, there are times when I reboot several times and I always wonder how I could change this, have looked but don't see where that screen is coming from; it happens on at least three computers and for several versions and I would like to change it if possible.
Any suggestions appreciated,
Bob
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 09:57:29 -0400 Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin@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 ...
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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.
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