Turns out that the Wayland display server has a long-standing problem with splash screens -
Centered/Splash shell surfaces <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/issues/67> On Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 9:39:23 AM UTC-5 Thomas Passin wrote: > Maybe relevant: > > "brahma <https://forum.manjaro.org/u/brahma> May 18, 2022, 9:00am #2 > > you are using wayland with nvidia on kde and you expect it to work? … dont > use wayland, switch to x11" > > (from > https://forum.manjaro.org/t/wayland-login-and-splash-screen-isnt-visible/111339 > ) > > On Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 4:46:28 AM UTC-5 Edward K. Ream wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 11:01 PM Thomas Passin <tbp1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> The fix (adding sleep()) works on all my VMs except Ubuntu. OTOH, Leo >>> loads so fast on my Ubuntu VM that I don't really miss the splash screen. >>> Funny how some of my Linux VMs are very fast and some are sluggish. I >>> don't generally find Ubuntu/Gnome snappy, but it does load Leo quickly. >>> The snappiest distro I've found so far is Manjaro/XFCE. It's become my >>> favorite so far. >>> >>> Here are the distros I've tested: >>> >>> Distro Desktop Display Splash >>> Manager Server displays? >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Mint Cinnamon X11 yes >>> Debian Cinnamon X11 yes >>> Ubuntu Gnome Wayland no >>> Manjaro XFCE X11 yes >>> OpenSUSE KDE Plasma X11 yes >>> WIndows 10 - - yes >>> >>> So maybe the splash screen doesn't show on systems with a Wayland >>> display server? At this point, I'm not inclined tp spend any more time on >>> this. I'll put in a PR with the sleep() added and call it a day for >>> now. >>> >> >> Good plan :-) Many thanks for your thorough investigations. >> >> Edward >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/1fbfcb23-97c1-4802-b371-a30b8d4e11cbn%40googlegroups.com.
