fbsplash - text rendering

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:11:57PM +0200, Alexander Griesser wrote:
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>Michele Sanges wrote:
>> In order to introduce the patch that adds the text rendering to the
>> fbsplash applet, I think it is better subdivide the patch into small
>> pieces.
>> I attach a first patch that manages the new parameters (text position;
>> text color; text size); please, take a look and eventually apply it.
>> Then I will send the second part of the patch.
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>Replying to this old post here: Can someone please really consider
>applying that to trunk? It's a great addon, I just switched from using
>splashy (from Debian) in userspace to fbsplash and missed the text
>feature, applied this patch and everything works perfect.

Can you please file a bug so it's not forgotten, i can't take care of it
right now but will have a look ASAP.
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>I don't need the animations or graphics stuff, but simple text display
>is very well needed down here.
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>If there would be a way to kill fbsplash (f.ex. if system hangs and
>text gets displayed in the background and I want to see this text)
>with Escape or anything like that, that would really make my day.
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>Oh and is it possible for fbsplash to always overwrite the text written
>on the console, like splashy does? F.ex. if one of my init scripts
>writes out text like "Done" or the like, it gets written over the
>fbsplash image. Using splashy, the image was like one layer above the
>console text...