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Afternoon, all.

I've been trying to research this one for the last 2-3 hours, and not getting anywhere with it.

We all know it's possible to display messages on-screen, which can timeout after x number of seconds; gtk-dialog, gxmessage, yaf-splash, etc. What I'm wondering is if it's possible to display an image in the same way.....not within a viewer window, but directly onto the JWM/Rox desktop, by itself, for so long.....and then timeout after your chosen number of seconds?

I'm attempting to figure out the simplest way possible to display a PNG image as a 'splash screen'. It's all ready to go; I just need an easy way to display it. Any suggestions, thoughts, ideas, etc, would be very much appreciated. (Esoteric ideas are NOT really what I'm looking for; I'm a total idiot when it comes to coding, so 'simple' is good!!)

TIA, guys.

Mike.

Maybe this is of some help?

Extract, open the directory and click the launch script.
Image disappears after 14 seconds.

@taersh :-

Hey, cheers for that, Rainer. You's "the man"..!

That is indeed precisely what I've been looking for. I wasn't aware gtk-dialog could make use of icons, but now I am.

Taking your script as a starting-point, what I've done is to simplify it as far as I can, along with a couple of modifications. I stripped out the audio-related stuff, since I don't need that, and basically 'boiled-it down' to a single gtk-dialog line. Like so:-

#!/bin/sh
#
# Display splash image
#
HERE="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"
#
$HERE/gtkdialog-splash -icon $HERE/launch.jpg -placement center -bg black -fg white -close never -timeout 6 2>/dev/null
sleep 2

And here's the result (not the image I shall be using, but it serves to illustrate the point):-

.....which is just what I wanted; nice'n'simple, and gives me the desired result. Thanks!

Mike.

And this is what it was all in aid of.....my 'project' for the last day or two.

My 'daily driver' is the 64-bit variant of jrb's 'take' on BK's Quirky 'April' 7.0.1. After much patient upgrading/modernizing/customizing, it now does everything I could ask of it, including running Zoom (albeit from a chrooted Xenialpup64 'jail', along with a few other things).

The only thing it steadfastly refuses to do is to run radky's JWMDeskManager. Try as I might, every attempt to get this working screws up the 'X'-server to such an extent that I have to re-install from backup.....so I've given up on it, and built my own using YAD!

I call it "Quirky 'DeskApps'":-

(PP-reset is a bunch of scripts I put together to copy the contents of the /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin file to a location in /mnt/home, prior to passing control back to either the shutdown or re-boot scripts. This button allows me to 'reset' the desktop in the - admittedly rare! - event that the PuppyPin file either doesn't load, or goes AWOL. Touch wood, it hasn't happened for some time now, but a year or two back, on the old hardware, I went through a spell when it was happening quite regularly; I got really fed-up with having to keep re-building my desktops, so I decided to do summat about it...)

There's absolutely no NEED for a 'splash screen' - it works fine without it! - but I just wanted one..... So; that's what it got..!

Mike.

I think I got this from fredx181 and I'm using it with a .gif file showing a sequence of a rocket launching.
The audio stuff I added is to add sound playing while the .gif's rocket is launching.
Audio is playing sound of a rocket launch.
I'm using this in front of the start of my QTR-Suite, which takes around 12 seconds to appear on the screen.
The QTR-Suite is my project management for all my music programs and musical compositions.

Great, that it does what you want.