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bug#39089: Guix System: Very long, scary boot time
From: |
Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
bug#39089: Guix System: Very long, scary boot time |
Date: |
Sun, 03 May 2020 19:15:28 +0200 |
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mu4e 1.2.0; emacs 26.3 |
Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
> Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> 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/
--
Ricardo
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