Jimmy Jazz wrote:
If i understood well F2 is managed from splash_util not splash_helper.
Indeed. splash_util listens for input events, but splash_helper does not. The only reason that splash_helper appears to respond to Alt+F1 is that that particular keypress is handled by the kernel as "change to terminal 1". If you could find a way to change back to terminal 16 (which is where splash_helper draws its pretty graphics), you'd be away. Maybe it's possible to use (e.g.) terminal 8 instead, in which case you could use Alt+F8.
The second issue is, i'm no more able to see the purple vertical bar at the right of the screen during the verbose mode. The screen only looks like as an usual tty. I'm quite sure, it was possible in the past.
I may be wrong, but I think splash_util is required for drawing the progress bar -- I don't think splash_helper can do that.
PS: I have tried splashutils 1.4 but it doesn't work for me. The screen stays black... until i press alt+f1 or F2. At first, i thought that could be the radeonfb driver, but it seems not. I didn't take too much time to look after it and i switched back to splashutils 1.3.1 for the moment.
Probably needs some extra testing with baselayout-1.x. This release was primarily for the baselayout-2 splash plugin, which does work fine on baselayout-2 (entering portage soon).
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