Changing the 10.2 startup graphics

[frengo]

Hi,

I am not a very experienced Linux user, so I cannot understand how to get rid of the "Xmas animation" from the 10.2 startup screen... the "About" info gives a reference to /boot/message, where they (seem to) say I should find a gfxboot.cfg file... ???
Instead, I have found that "Message" is actually a file itself (not editable text), while gfxboot is not a file but is a parameter inside the /boot/grub/menu.lst file.

Please help me to understand the real situation... thank you in advance!

[MRabbit]

Open konsole and do the following, press enter after each line:

mkdir cpio
cd cpio
cp /boot/message .
cpio -idv < message
rm message
kwrite gfxboot.cfg

Now change 'Penguin=-1' to 'Penguin=0'

Now do:

ls | cpio -ov > ../message
su
[ENTER ROOT PASS]
cp ../message /boot/message

The grub should not be christmassy anymore.

[frengo]

Thank you for the directions, Rabbit!

Since I want to understand what's happening for future reference, please confirm if what I did is as follows:

"message" is an archive file, that needs to be "exploded" to extract its contents... so the commads you gave me were for creating a temporary work directory, creating a copy of "message" in it, extracting the files from "message", deleting the copy of the "message" archive (to avoid keeping it inside the work directory), editing the cfg file, and finally rebuilding the archive and copying it back to the original place... right?

PS I have seen that one more file has been included in the new archive: it's probably a temporary copy of the cfg file, created by kwrite (a tilde character has been appended to the filename)... why did it remain there? Kwrite was closed before re-creating the archive, so the temporary file should have been deleted...
Anyway, this was a minor issue, thank you again for your help (and teaching)

[MRabbit]

You are correct Frengo. Don't worry about the extra file, it won't cause any problems. If you really want you can unpack it again, remove the temporary file, and pack it up again, but it would just be a waste of time.

[gogalthorp]

Thank you for the directions, Rabbit!

Since I want to understand what's happening for future reference, please confirm if what I did is as follows:

"message" is an archive file, that needs to be "exploded" to extract its contents... so the commads you gave me were for creating a temporary work directory, creating a copy of "message" in it, extracting the files from "message", deleting the copy of the "message" archive (to avoid keeping it inside the work directory), editing the cfg file, and finally rebuilding the archive and copying it back to the original place... right?

PS I have seen that one more file has been included in the new archive: it's probably a temporary copy of the cfg file, created by kwrite (a tilde character has been appended to the filename)... why did it remain there? Kwrite was closed before re-creating the archive, so the temporary file should have been deleted...
Anyway, this was a minor issue, thank you again for your help (and teaching)

A file with a tilda is just a backup file. just in case you would want to revert to the previous version of the file.

[frengo]

Thank you guys!

Probably you have noticed I'm coming from Windoze... there, the tilde is placed on temporary file names.