Bug 34865 - Transition between Plymouth and Display Manager is not smooth
Summary: Transition between Plymouth and Display Manager is not smooth
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG
Alias: None
Product: plymouth
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
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Reported: 2011-03-01 05:12 UTC by Lee Hyde
Modified: 2012-06-08 13:55 UTC (History)
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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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