i have managed to get an animation to display a single frame, but as yet i have been unable to get the image to animate
to convert images into an animation i hmade 4 images called blank.png, test1.png, test2.png, test3.png
in a terminal in the folder i saved them i ran
convert
-comment “id hardware nodelta delay 0” blank.png +comment
-comment “id test” test1.png +comment
-comment “nodelta delay 0” blank.png +comment
-comment “id second” test2.png +comment
-comment “nodelta delay 0” blank.png +comment
-comment “id third” test3.png +comment
-comment “id blank refresh stop” blank.png
test.mng
>>>Note<<<
i created the png images using gimp, and it only worked when the image was created without the “created by gimp” comment in the file (i had to remove this manually when createing the new file using the advanced options)
the part inside the " is the comment, you need at least one frame with a comment like
id test
to be able to select the start frame of the animation (in this case it is labelled test)
this creates a mng animataion called test.mng
to show this on boot add this line to your .cfg file
mnganim logo2 /etc/bootsplash/themes/test/images/test.mng initframe test silent center 700 500
logo2 is the name you intend to use for this snimation in the rest of the config file
/etc/bootsplash/themes/test/images/test.mng should be replaced with the path to the mng file
initframe test tells it that the first fram is labelled test
silent must tell it wether to show itself in either silent or verbose mode
center 700 500 is the position to display the animation
i havent been able to get this animation to animate during boot, even though i can run through it using imagemagick (the animate command) and it plays ok
the bootsplash website says this
trigger “rlchange 3” play text devices
tells the system to play starting from id “devices” in the mng animation with id “text”.
i have tried variants of this to get the image to animate, but with no successs
i have tried the following
trigger “rlchange 3” play logo2 third
trigger “apache” play logo2 second
trigger “apache2” play logo2 third
trigger “httpd” play logo2 second
trigger “httpd2” play logo2 third
trigger “gdm” play logo2 second
anyone have any suggestions of how to get this working?