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oui

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Registered: 2012-09-05

Posts: 298

picture of tux

Hi

I have a very very important question (::):

While SliTaz is starting by Grub the pretty picture of tux appears in the top left corner:

How to do that that little picture (always the same) appears all the time:

- as Grub2 (GrubPC) appears

- as SliTaz is starting as now

- in the base if no Xorg or else is installed (server in console mode)

- in X mode in JWM or openbox

It is a simple little question (::) from major importance!

Kind rgds

lexeii

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Registered: 2012-03-21

Posts: 1,853

Re: picture of tux

Hi!

I can help you a little bit.

There are a different techniques used:

GRUB (GRUB-legacy) can use 14-color splash images. Read more:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB_Legacy#Graphical_boot

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub-gfx

http://www.schultz-net.dk/grub.html

Draw your own no-more-than-14-color splash image, save it in xpm format (you can use GIMP) with name splash.xpm, compress it to splash.xpm.gz, put it to /boot/grub/ folder and configure GRUB's menu.lst to use splash image.

Little Tux Logo you see during boot process is a part of Linux Kernel.

Image is 80×80px size and no-more-than-224-color.

This image is compiled into the kernel and if you need to change it (I know, you don't), you need to tweek and re-compile your own kernel. I think you'll find tux image in the net.

Personally, I not use this logo. My screen is wide 1024×600, and when I add "vga=ask" to the kernel line in the menu.lst, I see maximum supported resolution is VESA (3:4) 800×600, and I see two Tuxes (one Tux per CPU Core) only about 5 seconds, up to 915 kernel module loading, that give me native resolution and clears Tux logos.

- in the base if no Xorg or else is installed (server in console mode)

- in X mode in JWM or openbox

What you mean? Wallpaper?

oui

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Registered: 2012-09-05

Posts: 298

Re: picture of tux

Hi Aleksej, otshen' spasibo!

Wallpaper: Background picture on the all screen as it is possible to make appearing in Xwindow using xli or feh (probably also in server mode but I did try yesterday to install the SliTaz feh package: the dependencies are terrible and the tazpckg from SliTaz 5.0rc2 doesn't stop to ask if you want to install the dependencies!

(How to setup and interchange writing in console mode in SliTaz to write a bit Russian? How to do in one unique mixed document English/Russian?)

Kind rgds

lexeii

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Registered: 2012-03-21

Posts: 1,853

Re: picture of tux

Hi

Yes, feh has more dependencies. And it will not work if you not installed all it needs. My apologies...

Now about Russian in the Linux console.

Linux console uses default VGA font that contains only extended ASCII character set (if memory serves me well), and not contain any Russian letters.

Since May, 15 (commit) slitaz-boot-scripts version 5.6.1 recognizes kernel option "font=". It seems like "slitaz-5.0-rc2.iso" dated as "2014-May-19" is released with this feature.

First. I installed tiny package "terminus-font-base" because I like the way letters appeared in the console. And it contains Cyrillic, Greek, and some more letters.

Second. I tweaked my menu.lst to use terminus font on a boot time (really close to the end of boot process).

Note "font=ter-v14n":

[c]title SliTaz full install
rootnoverify (hd0,6)
kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.53-slitaz rw root=/dev/sda7 lang=ru_UA kmap=ru font=ter-v14n laptop[/c]
And note "kmap=ru": I can switch "en ←→ ru" keyboard layout using Ctrl+Shift.

oui

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Registered: 2012-09-05

Posts: 298

Re: picture of tux

thank you very much!

kind rgds