Re: Changing main.txt and the FB Lnx-bbc Logo.

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:16:38AM -0800, matt templeton wrote:
> Howdy all. I'm new to lnx-bbc and I like what I have seen so far. I have been 
> doing some testing on the 2.0-beta but haven't found anything that is not 
> already written up as a bug.  A big thanks to the developers for a lot of 
> good work!
> 
> I am not a developer and don't plan on changing much, but I would like to add 
> my name and Email to the main.txt page and to the logo that shows at the top 
> of the screen during a frame buffer boot. I want to be able to hand these out 
> to clients so I want them to know how to contact me.

The easiest thing to do would probably be to run figlet and get a
smaller set of the words LNX-BBC out of it - then merge it and a couple
of lines of your own "bizcard" into the place where the logo sits now.

The advantage is you could carefully avoid damaging the ctrl-O xy combos
that set the colors...

> To change main.txt I have tried a couple of  ANSI editors but they don't seem 
> to be compatible with the original text. Could someone let me know what 
> package (if any) was used to create main.txt? 

tisn't ANSI, it's SYSLINUX.  ctrl-O, character for bg, character for fg,
iirc.  We like black bg so theres a lot of 0y.
 
> As for the framebuffer logo, I have searched around for some tools to help 
> out. So far the GIMP plugin looks like it may be the best option. Any other 
> suggestions?

The way I merged the color logo was to cook what I wanted in the GIMP,
save it as a .xpm, then use xpm2ppm.  The file had originally been a
.png, but there's no easier path from .png to ppm format - I looked.

Be careful about using too many colors;  doesn't affect every machine,
but I have seen some awful weird looking little framebuffer-penguins.

> Thanks for the help. 

Glad you like our toy 


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