Changing Boot Screen

[Pein]

Hello All

I am pretty new to Linux . I have installed Mint and will try Open suse on live cd.
Issue i am facing....
1. I have few small flash exe files which my nephew plays when ever he comes here. So is there a way to play the same in Mint linux?
2. When Mint linux boot, the boot screen looks kinda boring four dots.... so is there a way to change the booth screen

Thanks in Advance
Regards
Pein

[Ocky]

Originally Posted by Pein

Hello All

I am pretty new to Linux . I have installed Mint and will try Open suse on live cd.
Issue i am facing....
1. I have few small flash exe files which my nephew plays when ever he comes here. So is there a way to play the same in Mint linux?
2. When Mint linux boot, the boot screen looks kinda boring four dots.... so is there a way to change the booth screen

Thanks in Advance
Regards
Pein

Look here for instructions on how to change both login and plymouth (boot) screens.
I am not sure about flash exe files as I only have .swf on my system.

[mack_guy911]

welcome to forums naruto

the games you send me and talking about

1st scan your exe with

http://www.virustotal.com/

or your own antivirus kis ....etc

if clean then......

step 1: install wine

step 2: right click on file you want to run click on properties

step 3: now in properties go to permission allow executing bit of that file (ie allow executing file as program)

step 4: right open with wine

step 5 it will make your program run

[mack_guy911]

as for changing theme of plymouth install the theme and change the default one

Ocky already given a nice link to say all nothing more to tell i guss

[Pein]

Hello Ocky

The link you gave worked perfectly had some issues then i changed the permission of the file and i was able to get boot screen with my desktop wallpaper.
The issue i face now is everytime when login screen appear i get option to select theme. How to stop that from apprearing everytime i login

Thanks again
Regards
Pein

[Ocky]

Originally Posted by Pein

Hello Ocky

The link you gave worked perfectly had some issues then i changed the permission of the file and i was able to get boot screen with my desktop wallpaper.
The issue i face now is everytime when login screen appear i get option to select theme. How to stop that from apprearing everytime i login

Thanks again
Regards
Pein

I don't bother with that eyecandy, but I think it may be step number 6 of the 'tutorial'
viz. 6. Open a terminal. Type the following command to deactivate the Appearance window upon login.
sudo unlink /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop

[Pein]

Thanks

I tried and it worked perfect