SPLASHY_UPDATE(1) Splashy POSIX boot splash system SPLASHY_UPDATE(1)NAME
Splashy - a user-mode, POSIX and LSB compliant, boot splashing system
for UNIX.
SYNOPSISsplashy_update "<text>"
DESCRIPTION
Splashy displays an image and a progress bar at boot time.
splashy_update is used to send commands to the running Splashy daemon.
See "COMMANDS" below to know which commands Splashy understands.
OPTIONS
text Sends text to Splashy socket.
COMMANDS
progress NN
Example:
splashy_update progress 20
Sets the progress bar to 20%
print STRING
Tells Splashy to print the given message to an overlayed
window. Useful when displaying status.
Alias: text
clrprint
Clears the text box
Alias: clear
repaint Tells Splashy to redraw the background image. Useful when
removing overlayed windows.
chvt N Switch working console to N. Needs "allowchvt"
allowchvt
Tells Splashy that is Ok to allow itself to be removed from
focus by other applications
timeout N
This tells Splashy to exit if it has not received any input for
N seconds
exit Quits Splashy
RETURN CODES
1 cannot open the socket
2 cannot write to socket
3 invalid args
255 /etc/splashy does not exist
FILES
/etc/splashy/config.xml
Main configuration. defines how splashy should be setup.
SEE ALSOsplashy(1), splashy_config(1), splashy-config.xml(5),
splashy-theme.xml(5)AUTHORS
Andrew Williams <mistik1@geeksinthehood.net>
Luis Mondesi <lemsx1@gmail.com>
perl v5.10.0 2009-02-25 SPLASHY_UPDATE(1)
