Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes:
> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > >> Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org> skribis: >> >>> I think it's our job as a distribution to integrate the components properly >>> into >>> the system so that confusing stuff like that doesn't happen. >>> >>> As a first step, we could just not start a getty on tty1 when gdm is >>> configured >>> to start (see tty1 in %base-services in (gnu services base)). Then the >>> thing >>> above wouldn't appear. >>> >>> The usual fix a lot of other distributions (and BIOSes) have is to display a >>> splash screen on top. >> >> I think that would be the better fix: add the splash screen thing (I >> forgot the name) to ‘%desktop-services’, but keep functional TTYs. > > I think you’re referring to Plymouth: > > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth/ We have a patch for Plymouth: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/26970 Back then I asked for more information on how to actually use it. Now it’s clear to me: by building it statically and including it in the initrd. -- Ricardo
