Okay, I think part of this was because I was unaware I was running bootchart and bootchart-java. So at the end of the startup process, Java was eating all my CPU and disk I/O.
Without those, I get different choppy transitions: either the GNOME panel appears on top of the xsplash graphic until it is replaced by my desktop, or the xsplash graphic fades to black in about 2 big steps before my desktop appears. (This had the effect of looking like the spotlight went out. I was briefly wondering if the light going out on Ubuntu was some sort of obscure error condition, like the "sad Mac face"!) Anyway, I get the impression that what I'm seeing now is some approximation of the desired behavior, just at a number of frames per second that is painfully smaller than 1. it may be that my system (mostly my hard disk) is simply too slow for me to get the promised Ubuntu boot experience. -- xsplash should crossfade during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/435324 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
