Reference

bootanim(1)

script to display animations depending on what command was executed.

NAME

bootanim — script to display animations depending on what command was executed.

SYNOPSIS

bootanim [[start|stop|kill|next]] [-m] [-r XxY] [-d dir] [mng1] [mng2 ...]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

bootanim is run from the splash.sh script and is used to play animations during boot based on what command is run by the rc script.

OPTIONS

start, stop, kill, next

These options start, stop and fade out, immediately stop, and advance the specified and current animations respectivly.

-r

The screen resoultion to use if we are unable to autodetect it. Specify in the form [width]x[height].

-d

A directory containing animation files.

-m

Play multiple animations.

mng1, mng2 ...

The animations to play. Use -m if multiple files are specified.

SEE ALSO

bootsplash (7), splash.sh (1).

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Matthew A. Nicholson [email protected] for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.