For Webconverger customization customers, customising the X background is normal and best practice. If customers want splashy customised, this is currently a lot of extra work and I have to charge accordingly.
splashy
New and somewhat easier than usplash. There is some rough edges with the secondary screen.
Wrote up a little customisation guide over at the d-l wiki.
Try out the USB images on the mini download page. Splashy uses directfb.
Image should be about 640x480 and not have any detail close to the edges.
From 2.30 noxbg makes the X bootup screen blank.
The X windows centered background image on a white background
This is retrieved from $HOMEPAGE/bg.png
Image should be about 800x600 & if it is a Webconverger image it should link:
- webconverger.com/buy
- support email address
Users see this as Webconverger loads the Web browser. So initially at bootup and between sessions. The amount of time this background is viewable depends on the speed of the computer. I.e. how long it takes to load the browser.
Example
So the default HOMEPAGE=http://portal.webconverger.com/ So view the current background.
Thoughts
The background could be a nice image or piece of art.
If using Flickr choose a BY: licensed image.
Grub & Syslinux
For the grub bootloader a 640x400 image (14 indexed colours) is required. The Debian Live Artwork page has details of how the artwork is converted.