On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/24/2015 06:00 PM, Mike - st257 wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Mike - st257 <silvertip257@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <
> >> Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 08/17/2015 04:19 AM, Mike - st257 wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello List Members,
> >>>>
> >>>> I decided to install C7 KDE on a workstation for a friend of mine.
> Works
> >>>> great, but the post-boot KDE splash screen (light blue and has 3 or
> more
> >>>> up
> >>>> ^ arrows that move from the lower center upwards) is a bit of a
> >>>> frustration
> >>>> for that person. I've determined that one can press the Escape key and
> >>>> move
> >>>> from that bluish splash to the login screen. (And at one point rolling
> >>>> the
> >>>> wheel on the mouse worked too, but didn't consistently cause the
> >>>> transition
> >>>> from splash to login screen.)
> >>>>
> >>>> At this point I think it's more ideal to just disable the splash
> screen
> >>>> and
> >>>> instead have the system go straight to the login screen (where user
> names
> >>>> are listed). Can that be done?
> >>>>
> >>>> Here's to hoping a KDE user or two on this list knows a solution. ;-)
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks!
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Since this is pre-login, it's the display manager's splash screen, not
> >>> the desktop environment's. I'm typing this on a C7 laptop under KDE,
> but I
> >>> still use GDM as display manager - and I don't see that splash screen
> you
> >>> describe (though I may have configured it away, I can't remember).
> >>> Which DM are you using?
> >>>
> >>
> >> The DM ends up being GDM (stock from a LiveDVD install).
> >> Thoughts?
> >>
> >
> > Update:
> > So on initial boot I'm seeing that the login list is shown. Once the
> > display is idle, the bluish splash [0] (with the time in large numbers)
> is
> > then present when the display is woke again.
> >
> > So far perusing the gdm.conf and some GDM config setting documentation
> > hasn't yielded me any good leads.
> >
> > Still searching for a solution. Thanks for any suggestions.
> >
> > [0] http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=300862
>
> It is not a splash screen , it is a timeout screen saver
>
True enough, I did notice that post-boot it didn't show up until after the
machine went idle.
>
> Press the enter key (that brings up the login screen) or login when the
> machine first boots.
>
Thanks.
Any idea if the timeout screensaver can be disabled?
(Or maybe not worth the bother.?)
Though [0] and [1] may be a solution which I'll try later today.
[0]
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/32680/disabling-screen-lock-in-fedora-19/
[1]
http://superuser.com/questions/633669/permanently-disable-screensaver-fedora-19
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