On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > 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 > 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 -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //