[Splashy-users] problem with splashy

[Luis]

On 8/26/06, sly boots <slyboots.pd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
> I wont write this mail, but your forum wont me register and your icq channel
> wosnt created...
> I work on HP nx6110 Laptop with Ubuntu dapper Drake (latest version).
> I have installed your product. I have only one problem. When i get verbose
> theme, then i cant see the bootlog text, and when i press F2 then is the
> same.... nothing is doing. I have searched the internet for this problem,
> but havent find what i need.
>
> If i press F2, when the computer is shutingdown i cann see all the messages
> from bootlog. But i think it shoul show the text without pressing F2
> button???
>
> And when the system is going up the bootlog isnt going up too.... hmm
>
> What cann i make???

Hello,

Umm... for us "autoverboseonerror" means that only when an error
happens, Splashy would start showing the messages. You could "force"
this behavior by simply doing "splashy_update 'print foo'" when
Splashy is running. You would need to add this to the startup script.
To be truthful to you, the current code that displays the boot text is
an ugly hack. It was done the quick-n-dirty way just to have this
feature in Splashy. We are working on having this done right, though
perhaps that won't be done for Splashy 0.2.x, which is due to come out
shortly. That would be done for Splashy 0.4.x for sure.
When this feature is done right, then we will need to add an option to
the theme.xml file to allow verbose to always be on, not just on
errors.

Thanks for the suggestion. You might want to fill out a "wishlist" bug
in our Feature Request tracker (this way we won't forget it):

http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?atid=411693&group_id=30657&func=browse

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