Add a “become-idle” flag for plymouth
Submitted by Kai..@..il.com
Assigned to Ray Strode @halfline
Description
Since I am currently fuzzing around with Plymouth a bit I want to create a simple menu structure. It is done using the message flag for displaying the options and then a watch-keystroke to fetch the user‘s input. There is - however - no way for nicely ending/pausing the start animation. Pause-progress pauses it, yes, but it is stopped in the middle at random points. In Ubuntu for example, then you have like 2 out of 5 dots iluminated which doesn‘t look nice. The effect that the deactivate flag triggers, is the desired one. It is the effect that occurs right before X starts up, so the animation is ended and in case of Ubuntu, all dots are hidden, leaving a nice “paused” start screen. For the boot menu and probably other inputs requested right before X starts, like passwords, a “become-idle” flag would really be needed. It would pause plymouth in the same way, pause-progress does, but without deactivating plymouth and have it still react to message changes, password prompts and user inputs.