On Mon, 20 May 2002, Stephen Dennison wrote:
> Is there really no one on the list who can help me? > > On Thu, 16 May 2002, Stephen Dennison wrote: > > > When fvwm starts up, I can see the background being set, I see the > > applications start up for the pager, and then they are swallowed by the > > pager and somewhere along the way the banner pops up just before Fvwm is > > done loading. > > > > Is there some sort of support in fvwm to show a splash screen, wait for > > fvwm to finish starting up, and then display the desktop? (Would > > FvwmBanner do something like this for me without using too large of an > > image?) This would hide the background stuff and make the startup look > > better on my system. > > I think you can use FvwmBanner to do this In InitFunction (or StartFunction if you want to show this for restarts also). AddToFunc InitFunction I Module FvwmBanner .... # some other initialisation here... + I KillModule FvwmBanner Then you need to configure FvwmBanner to show a fullscreen picture and have a longer time out than the default 3 seconds. *FvwmBanner: Pixmap <your pixmap> *FvwmBanner: TimeOut 10 # wait for 10 s (replace 10 if too short) *FvwmBanner: NoDecor # turn off window decorations > > > > --s.r.d. > > -- > Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. > To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a > message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
