You know how when Linux boots up, you can press the delete key to jump from the graphical boot screen to a view of the kernel and init system logs? Is this possible with the KDE splash screen so I know what’s going on with that too? I’d be happy with either a splash screen that can optionally be switched to a log view, or just removing the splash screen and having a log view permanently.

    • AgreeableLandscapeOP
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      3 years ago

      Tried it: it shows the Plasma components loading in real time and appearing onscreen. You know what? That’s pretty cool too, I can nerd out to that!

  • Aiwendil
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    3 years ago

    The Splash screens seems to be written in QML (check /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/splash/)…so it should be possible to re-write them to display any information you want…including the journalclt output during the login what is probably the closest you get to a log of the KDE startup. Might need you to write a c++ plugin for QML though…no clue if there is already a QML module that can access journald logs.

    (And of course you probably want to do that in a local copy in ~/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel)

  • Ephera
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    3 years ago

    Not part of KDE, but you may also be able to access logs from one of the TTYs.
    On my openSUSE box, it’s available from Ctrl+Alt+F10. Doesn’t seem to be available on Ubuntu; no idea about other distros.

    I also have no idea which logs actually get shown there…