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Hans de Goede 50c619ed41 two-step: Add UseEndAnimation setting
We try to start the end animation early based on our progress accounting
but this is highly unreliable because e.g.:
-It counts time to enter the diskcrypt passwd as normal boot time, while
 this varies wildly from boot to boot
-Boot times for laptops can differ significantly between docked / undocked
 state

Between gdm calling /bin/plymouth deactivate and the drm plugin's deactivate
method getting called there can be e.g. 2.1 seconds (from a random boot),
with a theoretical maximum of 3 seconds (2 seconds to finish the throbber +
1 second for the end animation).

On a modern system userland boot should be able to finish in say 5 seconds,
making gdm wait an additional 1 - 3 seconds for deactivation is a huge amount
of extra wait time!

This commit adds a new "UseEndAnimation" option to the two-step plugin,
which defaults to true. Setting this to false makes deactivation immediate.

This works nicely with the spinner (and bgrt) themes since we do not really
do anything special in the end animation there anyways and since we fade-over
into gdm things will still look ok, while shaving a signifcant chunk of our
boot time.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
2020-03-11 19:22:31 +00:00
docs docs: fix some typos 2018-06-06 13:29:09 -04:00
images ship bizcom unconditionally 2008-06-22 00:49:24 -04:00
po gitignore: Add translation related generated files to .gitignore 2019-10-15 11:33:55 +02:00
scripts build-goo: Remove vestigial remnants of old GDM integration code. 2020-03-07 00:36:54 +08:00
src two-step: Add UseEndAnimation setting 2020-03-11 19:22:31 +00:00
systemd-units systemd-ask-password-plymouth.service.in: Do not hardcode /run path to pid file 2019-10-13 16:56:01 +02:00
themes two-step: Add UseEndAnimation setting 2020-03-11 19:22:31 +00:00
.gitignore gitignore: Add translation related generated files to .gitignore 2019-10-15 11:33:55 +02:00
acinclude.m4 [configure] Add AS_AC_EXPAND for configured dirs 2009-08-07 16:32:32 -04:00
AUTHORS Add Peter to AUTHORS 2008-06-10 21:59:10 -04:00
autogen.sh build-goo: get rid of warnings related to non-GNU systems 2013-12-11 13:32:54 -05:00
ChangeLog Put in ChangeLog request to not use ChangeLog 2008-05-20 15:15:03 -04:00
configure.ac build-goo: Remove vestigial remnants of old GDM integration code. 2020-03-07 00:36:54 +08:00
COPYING initial import 2007-05-08 17:48:00 -04:00
INSTALL build-goo: Remove vestigial remnants of old GDM integration code. 2020-03-07 00:36:54 +08:00
Makefile.am Add support for translating the user visible strings in some themes 2019-02-26 17:05:14 +01:00
NEWS initial import 2007-05-08 17:48:00 -04:00
README README: add link to Code of Conduct 2018-08-06 14:58:18 -04:00
TODO Add hack to make maintenance mode probably work when 2008-06-30 17:55:15 -04:00

plymouth - graphical boot animation and logger

Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot process
(even before the root filesystem is mounted!) that provides a graphical
boot animation while the boot process happens in the background.

It is designed to work on systems with DRM modesetting drivers. The idea
is that early on in the boot process the native mode for the computer is
set, plymouth uses that mode, and that mode stays throughout the entire
boot process up to and after X starts. Ideally, the goal is to get rid
of all flicker during startup.

For systems that don't have DRM mode settings drivers, plymouth falls
back to text mode (it can also use a legacy /dev/fb interface).

In either text or graphics mode, the boot messages are completely
occluded.  After the root file system is mounted read-write, the
messages are dumped to /var/log/boot.log. Also, the user can see the
messages at any time during boot up by hitting the escape key.

Plymouth isn't really designed to be built from source by end users. For
it to work correctly, it needs integration with the distribution.
Because it starts so early, it needs to be packed into the
distribution's initial ram disk, and the distribution needs to poke
plymouth to tell it how boot is progressing.

plymouth ships with two binaries: /sbin/plymouthd and /bin/plymouth

The first one, plymouthd, does all the heavy lifting. It logs the
session and shows the splash screen. The second one, /bin/plymouth, is
the control interface to plymouthd.

It supports things like plymouth show-splash, or plymouth
ask-for-password, which trigger the associated action in plymouthd.

Plymouth supports various "splash" themes which are analogous to
screensavers, but happen at boot time. There are several sample themes
shipped with plymouth, but most distributions that use plymouth ship
something customized for their distribution.

Plymouth isn't done yet. It's still under active development, but is
used in several popular distros already, including Fedora, Mandriva,
Ubuntu and others.  See the distributions page for more information.

As with other projects hosted on freedesktop.org, Plymouth follows its
Code of Conduct, based on the Contributor Covenant. Please conduct
yourself in a respectful and civilized manner when using the above
mailing lists, bug trackers, etc:

	https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeOfConduct