Lubuntu - How to create a shutdown splash screen?

[Aere Greenway]

John:

A message displayed (as you intended to do) would be helpful for my
case, since sometimes I miss the (faint) audio cue, and wonder if I need
to keep waiting, or if it is safe to turn it off.  

- Aere

On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 15:44 -0400, John Hupp wrote:

> This is actually a tangent to the incomplete shutdown problem that I
> have been working on.  In my initial post I wondered if, as a
> work-around of sorts, I could create a shutdown splash screen that
> would remain on-screen on machines that suffer from the shutdown
> problem.
> 
> So pending a fix for the shutdown problem, I return to this thought in
> a separate thread of its own.
> 
> When I initially posted the problem on the LTSP mail list, one reply
> came that it was possible but not easy to do, and that such a
> mechanism would be distro-specific and require help from someone with
> distro-relevant knowledge.
> 
> What I had in mind was a screen similar to the one that appeared on
> Windows 9x machines that could not turn off automatically.  For those,
> the last screen that appeared said something like "It is now safe to
> turn off your computer."
> 
> And I think I recall seeing this screen flash on for an instant even
> on machines that could turn off automatically.  So it may have been
> part of the standard shutdown routine and only remained on-screen for
> cases when an auto-shutdown didn't work.
> 
> Anyone know how?


-- 

Sincerely,
Aere
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