Afisufi High Tech Usplash Theme

Releases

Current version :

Changelog :

  • 0.1 Alpha 4 : Added 1280×1024 resolutions
  • 0.1 Alpha 3 : Added 800×600 and 640×480 resolutions
  • 0.1 Alpha 2 : Added text support for verbose mode

Daily Snapshot :

Older versions :

Introduction

It has been a while since I pubblished my first usplash theme, Fingerprint Usplash, which is one of the most appreciated themes on Gnome Looks. I decided to create an other one, compatible with latest usplash releases, as soon as I saw this gdm theme, a good example of high tech theme. The following screenshots should give you an idea of what I’m realizing, but if it’s not enough at the end of the post you will find an updated video of the latest version.

usplash 150x150 Afisufi High Tech Usplash Theme Middle Charging

As you can see this is a pre-release. I still need to add the text box in the bottom-right corner, and perhaps some other effects. Also, it’s just working on 1024×768, so no 800×600, no widescreens etcetc. You can find more informations about future developing in the ‘To Do’ section of this page.

As always comments and criticism are welcome.

Licence

Copyright (C) 2009 Andrea Olivato

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Credits

This work is completely based on Afisufi High Tech GDM theme

Disclaimer

This is an Alpha version, a pre-release, suitable for testing purposes only.

If you choose to follow my instruction be aware that this was tested just on a virtual machine, at 1024×768 usplash resolution with Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex and that I do not guarantee for this theme to work on your configuration. If you’re not sure about what you’re doing please wait a bit untile the stable release of the theme.

Documents: Guides and How-Tos

I recently created a personal wiki where to store all my stuff so please follow those links for the install and upgrade this theme

To Do

  • Add 1600×1050 resolution
  • Add widescreen version
  • Compile amd64 version

Media

  • Well dude, well done! I really like this usplash theme.. cool one.. I am a person who really loves eye-candy.. but the place where the scripts load (on the right bottom corner) the background appears as blue instead of showing the background pic. Any suggestions to fix that?
  • Heya Vikas, thanks for your compliments... About your problem, what version of Ubuntu you have? Cause I believe i'm using a code incompatible with ubuntu < 8.10
  • Mike Nethel
    That's terrific! Will you add a 1680x1050 version?
  • I think so bu i'll go in order of usage... I think 1280x1024 will be my next goal... after that it should be your resolution or 1440x900 which I think is still more used then yours... However stay tuned I will release those new res asap
  • JasonLinux
    in response to the blue text area at the bottom from "Vikas Vishnu" , u must go into the menu.lst and add to your kernel line 'vga=791'.

    This is what worked for me. hope this helps you.
  • JasonLinux
    i would also like to kno how to fix this scanning of my disk drive on every reboot. i personally find it annoying.
  • Hi Jason, I didn't understand what you mean... Do you want to disable the ext3 check? Or do you simply want to patch the theme so that the text shows correctly?
  • JasonLinux
    To show the text correctly. with white background and not blue.

    however it does not happen in all cases. i applied this theme serial times and i realised that some would show a blue colour in the text area. which is what i was fixing above......while other would not .....same thing with checking the disks or not. i believe it has something to do with how the script is written when u close the start-up manager.

    just my opinion.
  • JasonLinux
    for example...the last time i had this theme in it worked fine. but i had to reformat cause of some issue so then i applied it again cause this theme rocks and now my text when shutting down don't show so.....i don't kno what to do about that.
  • JasonLinux
    ok so i have prove my theory of the script writting. apparently the theme is working corrently now.

    All i did was went back into the start-up manager and uncheck the display text option and close for it to rewrite the script then i went back in again and check it again and close. and wa-law. i have text when shutting down and starting up. i believe for those u must be having a problem with the checking of the ext3 file system might just need to script rewritten. i could be wrong however you can try. i would try it myself however i am not having that problem anymore thankfully.

    hope this helps and clears things up
  • Hi Jason, thanks for sharing your experience...

    I'll try to do something for the ext3 check but in the meantime do you mind if I add your suggestions the the installation guide?
  • JasonLinux
    sure, i don't mind you adding my suggestions to the installation guide.

    i'm glad i could have helped.
  • Harris
    Hello,

    I followed the guide here:
    http://docs.andreaolivato.net/afisufi-0.1-alpha-4...

    But somehow it's not loading the background at all, only text are being shown.

    Am i missing any extra libraries?
  • Hi Harris,

    Default ubuntu installations got usplash libraries and no addings are needed. Could you see default ubuntu splash screen before installing mine?

    And what resolution did you choose on Startup manager? Are you sure your monitor can support it?

    And as last check, can you please paste here http://pastebin.com/ you /boot/grub/menu.lst so that I can see if there's any misconfiguration?

    Thanks a lot for your feedback
  • RPD
    I have the same problem, used your link, http://pastebin.com/m45ac4717
  • Hi RPD,

    your menu.lst seems just fine... Perhaps you might try to recompile the package yourself. Can you try and give me a feedback if it worked ?

    http://docs.andreaolivato.net/afisufi-sources-com...

    This is the guide to do so...you need to install the .dev package of usplash in order to compile successfully.
  • RPD
    I've tried a fresh install about 3 times now, same problem. Could it be because I'm running a 64bit os and not 32bit??
  • Yes that's the problem for sure! The binary I compiled is for 32bit only. If you got a 64bit system you need to compile it from sources.

    Follow this guide, it's kinda easy!

    http://docs.andreaolivato.net/afisufi-sources-com...
  • RPD
    Awsome, I'll follow it and see if I can get it working, thanks.
  • RPD
    Ok, I get an error message when i do the "run" portion. http://pastebin.com/m7cb6929c
    Also there's a - missing in your "Compile the sources" instructions there should be a - after alpha and before the 4.
  • RPD
    Yep, still doesn't work :(
  • That error means you did not intall the dependancies... try installing libusplash-dev... that package should contain pngtousplash.
  • All the required dependancies required for compilation are present on the guide, under the pre-requisite chapter

    http://docs.andreaolivato.net/afisufi-sources-com...
  • RPD
    I did follow that guide, get an error: E: Couldn't find package libsuplash-dev
    Forget it.
  • it's quite strange...

    http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=usplas...

    libusplash-dev should be on your apt repo...it's part of ubuntu...
  • Emaad
    There's a typo: It's libusplash-dev not libsuplash-dev!
  • Scrlked
    I am running 0.1 alpha 4 on Ubuntu 8.10 on a m1330 dell and doing 640 resolution. The problem I am having is that the text is being cut off a litle as well as its to large for the box itself. (Bottom right).

    BTW it rocks.
  • Hi Scrlked, thanks for your feedback. I'll try to increase text area for your resolution as soon as possible.
  • trik
    I've ubuntu 9.04 abd I've this error can you help me please, excuse me for my poor English
    usplash: can't get console font: Invalid argument
    usplash: No usable theme found for 1280x1024
    screen init failed
    traker@traker-desktop:~$ sudo usplash -c
    usplash: can't get console font: Invalid argument
    usplash: No usable theme found for 1024x768
    screen init failed
    traker@traker-desktop:~$ sudo usplash -c
    usplash: can't get console font: Invalid argument
    usplash: No usable theme found for 800x600
    screen init failed
  • lokar
    I've got the same problem. Ubuntu 9.04.
    Great work anyway
  • hey men that is because you maybe use amd64 kernel all you have to do is compile or send me an email i succeful compile, sorry for my bad english
    and andrea olivato if you need the amd64 compile just let me know


    ahora en espaniol, deseguro estas usando una plataforma amd64 lo unico que tienes que haces es compilar las fuente o mandame un correo y te mando el binario :)
    chaos-energy@hotmail.com
  • trik
    Re ALL GOOD I've compiled the source and it work fine with ubuntu 9.04
    thank you for your usplash it's very cool
  • Great! I'm glad it's working fine!
  • nice theme ... i've download from binary .. then it's not work... just compile from source ... and it's work ... :D ... thanks for theme ... keep share ...
  • That's strange that the binary is not working for so many people, are you using amd64 version of ubuntu?

    Anyway I'm glad it's working from source!
  • Hi Chaos,

    if you want to send me the .so compiled file I will upload it and quote you as the author (will link your blog). Send it to personal [at] andreaolivato.net.

    Thanks for your help
  • Да, реально в этом что-то такое есть. А раньше я ведь был довольно наивен :) Ну что ж - времена изменились :)
  • Anon
    Hey, I downloaded the splash theme, but I'm having trouble getting it to work. When I boot all I get is text. For some reason the default ubuntu splash works, but the ones I've downloaded from gnome-look aren't working.

    I've tried different resolutions. Do you have any idea what could be happening?
  • Hawk
    Doesn't work on 9.10, I suspect they changed something.
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