Anthony F McInerney writes:
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 21:23, Sam Varshavchik
<<URL:mailto:mrsam@courier-
mta.com>mrsam(a)courier-mta.com> wrote:
This laptop boots with the spinfinity plymouth theme, and there's a white
progress indication bar at the bottom of the display, progressing from
left
to right, during the boot.
That other laptop, over there, also boots with the spinfinity plymouth
theme, but there is no progress bar. Spinfinity just spins on its own,
and
that's the only thing that happens, until the desktop comes up.
I compared the plymouth packages on the two laptops. The only difference
is
that the first laptop has plymouth-theme-solar theme installed, in
addition
to spinfinity; and all other plymouth packages are the same.
I'll try installing the solar theme on the other laptop, but I can't see
that making a difference. The absence of the progress bar, on the 2nd
laptop, is a Scooby-Doo mystery to me.
So cat /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf (any differences on two laptops, this
one and THAT one ;) )
Nope. They are identical:
# cat plymouthd.conf
# Administrator customizations go in this file
#[Daemon]
#Theme=fade-in
[Daemon]
Theme=spinfinity
It sounds like you're seeing the text mode fallback progress
bar?
<
URL:https://jadelinux.net/images/boottheme/charge.png>https://jadelinu...
images/boottheme/charge.png
Like that, confirm?
Nope, that's the charge theme fallback.
Both of the laptops run the spinfinity theme. Both of them animate the
infinity logo on a blue background, identically.
Except that this one also shows an all-white progressbar on the bottom, at
the same time as the spinfinity one is being animated.
The charge text-mode fallback is a tri-color progressbar, rendered in text
mode, one character cell at a time; the spinfinity one's an all-white
progressbar, rendered pixel by pixel.