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Vitaly
Asked: 2011-06-30 01:02:20 +0800 CST

How to test plymouth via virtual machine?

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I am trying to edit my splash screen but its really annoying to restart the computer everytime just to find out it doesn't even work. i read on an article that I can do a virtual machine via ssh but I have no idea how to do that. I installed ubuntu in VirtualBox yesterday now installing sudo apt-get install openssh-server openssh-client on it. Now I am supposed to access the machine as root and test splash on tty1, and I have no idea how to do that. I tried searching around but there isn't a lot of information regarding Plymouth testing on the web.

Any help appreciated, thanks.

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  1. Best Answer

    You don't need VirtualBox for that. You can test themes within a session.

    • Install the package plymouth-x11
    • Run sudo plymouthd ; sudo plymouth --show-splash ; sleep 10 ; sudo killall plymouthd

    This will show you how your theme would look like on two screens (actually a simulation of multi-monitor setups) for 10 seconds. You can add the different actions you want to test (see plymouth --help) between the --show-splash and sleep command.

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