maemo.org - Talk - [Tutorial] Change boot logo

maemo.org - Talk (https://talk.maemo.org/index.php)

- MeeGo / Harmattan (https://talk.maemo.org/forumdisplay.php?f=45)

- - [Tutorial] Change boot logo (https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81704)

[Tutorial] Change boot logo

While copying the theme files off the device for development, I noticed the "booting.png" file in /usr/share/themes/blanco/meegotouch/images/system-services/ (if you look there, you'll also see all the MALF screens in case you want to "customize" them too, but that would be rather pointless..).

Anyway, one obvious use case here would be to add your contact information to the booting.png file, so in case your device gets lost, the honest finder can get your contact info without having to know the device lock or SIM PIN. Alternatively, just add a MeeGo logo or a big, fat "N9" logo there, so everyone knows this is not a fake N9 and doesn't run WP7.

First, copy the file /usr/share/themes/blanco/meegotouch/images/system-services/booting.png from your device to your computer. In the default USB networking SDK setup, you can do this with:

Code:

scp developer@192.168.0.15:/usr/share/themes/blanco/meegotouch/images/system-services/booting.png .

Now, you can use a tool like GIMP to add text to it. Please note that it will have to be in lanscape mode, so you might want to rotate your text by 90 degrees, but don't rotate the image itself! After that, copy the modified booting.png file back to the device:

Code:

scp booting.png developer@192.168.0.15:

Now, you need to replace the file in the system as root:

Code:

ssh developer@192.168.0.15

devel-su

cd /usr/share/themes/blanco/meegotouch/images/system-services/

rm booting.png

cp /home/developer/booting.png .

exit

exit

If you now power off your device and power it on again, you will see the text for about 7 seconds while the device is booting up (this will not prolong the booting process, it just happens that this image is displayed for about 7 seconds during boot). I was able to successfully do this on a N950 with PR1.1. YMMV. Especially, this is as of yet untested on a N9, but let me know if it works for you :)