[CentOS] CentOS7 KDE - post-boot splash screen

Sat Aug 29 13:35:26 UTC 2015
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 08/24/2015 06:00 PM, Mike - st257 wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Mike - st257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <
>> Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> 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

Press the enter key (that brings up the login screen) or login when the
machine first boots.


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