About Bootsplash

[Bill Nottingham]

D. D. Brierton (darren at dzr-web.com) said: 
> > At present there are still a few issues with it that shouldn't be too hard
> > to resolve. My pet hate is the way it starts X on vt8 for the graphical
> > boot, then kills it (meaning the text login is shown if your monitor
> > changes sync quick enough) then starts a new X session on vt7. This is a
> > waste of time!
> 
> Hmmm. That sounds odd, but perhaps it's for some good technical reason.

It's done to get the X authority authentication stuff right.

Bill