Bug 34865

Summary:	Transition between Plymouth and Display Manager is not smooth
Product:	plymouth	Reporter:	Lee Hyde <anubeon>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	anubeon, rstrode
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://launchpad.net/bugs/727136 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643588
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Description Lee Hyde 2011-03-01 05:12:10 UTC

I'm not certain that this is strictly a matter for upstream developers but I thought it worth reporting upstream just in case

I can only speak to my own experiences under Ubuntu 10.10 (x86-64) wherein the visual transition between Plymouth and GDM is far from smooth. Typically this visual transition entails an abrupt change to a black screen between plymouth and GDM. I assume that this affects over distributions and display managers.

If the following post to freedesktop's mailing lists (http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/plymouth/2009-June/000126.html) is to be believed* this need not be the case. With a few patches to both Plymouth and GDM they appear to have achieved a smooth transition of sorts. 

I'm not sure whether the Fedora developers approach is technically desirable, but the current situation which entails a somewhat jarring and abrupt transition to the display manager is sub-optimal in my opinion.

*I have no direct experience of Fedora

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2012-06-08 13:55:52 UTC

GDM now ships with a --enable-plymouth configure option.

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