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Changing the splash screen

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Changing the splash screen Hans Lienesch 09 Nov 00:30
  Changing the splash screen Chris Mohler 09 Nov 00:58
  Changing the splash screen Simon Budig 09 Nov 02:33
   Changing the splash screen Owen 09 Nov 22:18
Hans Lienesch
2011-11-09 00:30:50 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Changing the splash screen

Okay here goes:

So I am subcontracted to do computer repair and restoration to PC's and other items donated to a non profit that specifically caters to the needs of people who are physically and developmentally handicapped. I take pictures and put them on ebay to help sell stuff. Question: can I change the splash somehow so it doesn't exclaim gimp on the load?

Thanks

Chris Mohler
2011-11-09 00:58:34 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Changing the splash screen

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Hans Lienesch wrote:

So I am subcontracted to do computer repair and restoration to PC's and other items donated to a non profit that specifically caters to the needs of people who are physically and developmentally handicapped. I take pictures and put them on ebay to help sell stuff. Question: can I change the splash somehow so it doesn't exclaim gimp on the load?

On linux systems, one can edit the file "gimp-splash.png" located at /usr/share/gimp/2.0/images (or at least that's where Ubuntu sticks it - but I imagine it's reasonable place to look on most distros).

On my XP sytem that file is at C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\images.

Chris

Simon Budig
2011-11-09 02:33:34 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Changing the splash screen

Hans Lienesch (hanslienesch@hotmail.com) wrote:

Question: can I change the splash somehow so it doesn't exclaim gimp on the load?

Yes:

SPLASH IMAGES
GIMP comes with a default image for the splash screen but it allows system administrators and users to customize the splash screen by pro‐ viding other images. The image to be used with the splash screen is chosen as follows:

1. GIMP tries to load a random splash screen from the directory $HOME/.gimp-2.6/splashes.

2. It then falls back to using $HOME/.gimp-2.6/gimp-splash.png.

3. If the user didn't install any custom splash images, a random image is picked from ${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0/splashes.

4. As a last resort, GIMP uses the default splash image located at ${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0/images/gimp-splash.png.

I am unsure where $HOME/.gimp-2.6/ resides on a non-linux system, but you get the idea...

I hope this helps, Simon

Owen
2011-11-09 22:18:24 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Changing the splash screen

On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 03:33:34 +0100 Simon Budig wrote:

SPLASH IMAGES
GIMP comes with a default image for the splash screen but it allows system administrators and users to customize the splash screen by pro‐ viding other images. The image to be used with the splash screen is chosen as follows:

1. GIMP tries to load a random splash screen from the directory $HOME/.gimp-2.6/splashes.

2. It then falls back to using $HOME/.gimp-2.6/gimp-splash.png.

3. If the user didn't install any custom splash images, a random image is picked from ${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0/splashes.

4. As a last resort, GIMP uses the default splash image located at ${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0/images/gimp-splash.png.

Thanks for that.

Just checked my OpenSUSE, Fedora and Ubuntu installations.

In each, there were no directories named; $HOME/.gimp-2.6/splashes or
${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0/splashes

The splash was in ${datarootdir}/gimp/2.0/images/gimp-splash.png

I created a directory $HOME/.gimp-2.6/splashes and that was indeed picked up first.

Owen