---
name: "splac"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gnome-utils"
version: "1.4.1.2-4"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/splash"
---

# splac(1)

a splash screen renderer

Part of [splash(1)](/splash/1.md).

## NAME

splash, splac - a splash screen renderer

## SYNOPSIS

**splash** *logo.xpm program-or-script*

**splac title** *string*

**splac image** *new.xpm*

## DESCRIPTION

**Splash** renders splash screens for installers and other non GUI aware application code.  If invoked from a non X11 environment it remains silent but runs the client code.  It displays the selected xpm images centered on the display and shaped according to the mask of the xpm. (If you want to no shape use no mask.)

**splash** opens a window to display the image gives as the first argument. This must be a *.xpm* file.  Then it starts the script given as the second argument.

**splac** should only be called from within this script. It accepts the following arguments:

- **image**

  *new.xpm* Changes the image to *new.xpm*.

- **title**

  *string* Sets the window title to *string*. The new image need not be the same size.

## AUTHOR

**splash** was written by Alan Cox \<alan@redhat.com\>

This manual page was written by Jochen Voss \<voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de\>.