Getting rid of the startup splash screen (Edgy)

[Derek Broughton]

Cybe R. Wizard wrote:

> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>  said:
>> Please, it's not "fix" :-)  There's nothing broken.  If you don't
>> want a splash screen, just remove the "splash" option in the grub
>> menu.lst - or remove the "*splashimages" package, which is probably
>> what's providing the splash (there's a kubuntu-grub-splashimages and
>> grub-splashimages - the former provides _my_ splash, so I'm guessing
>> the latter is the default Ubuntu one).
> 
> I'm pretty sure you mean remove usplash.  Removing it will also remove
> usplash-theme-ubuntu and ubuntu-desktop.

I didn't, but I don't really know the relationship between usplash and the
splash images.  It turns out that while my system is clearly configured to
load the splash images from kubuntu-grub-splashimage - it DOESN'T (I
thought it was just moving /boot back to my root device that had suddenly
made it start using a splash screen)!  usplash doesn't have any actual
images (ie, grub understands compressed xpms, but the usplash artwork/theme
packages just have a .so file), but I guess it must be the source of my
splash image, too.  

As for removing ubuntu-desktop - who needs it? :-)
-- 
derek