Overview of CySplash

Documentation / CySplash

• Overview of CySplash
  • What It Does
  • What It Is Not
• Using CySplash
  • Startup Splash And PID Tracking
  • Session Chords
  • End-Session Panel
  • Global Help Overlay
  • Appearance And Sysinfo
  • Preview Without A Real Session
• Command Line
  • Tracking And Startup
  • Global Help Overlay
  • End-Session Panel
  • Appearance
  • Layout
  • System Info
  • Preview And Testing
• Copyright

Overview of CySplash

CySplash is the Blueprint startup splash, the end-session panel, and the global keyboard-help overlay. One binary, three faces.

Open this book from Help Books as "CySplash", or:

cyhelp --book CySplash --topic overview

The Applications page lists it as: Startup and end session.

What It Does

At login, startcyanotype.sh starts the desktop pieces and writes pid files under ~/.cyanotype/run/. CySplash watches those pids, paints the STARTUP SEQUENCE checklist and the SYSTEM SPECIFICATION sheet, then fades out and exits. It does not launch or control the session; it only reports what the launcher already started.

The same program is the interactive end-session panel (Logout, Shutdown, Reboot) and the session hotkey overlay. Default cywm chords:

• Control+Alt+Delete -- end-session panel (session.end_session_panel)
• Control+Alt+h -- keyboard-help overlay (session.global_help)

Scripted logout without a window is cysplash --logout-now (what the old cylogout --now path forwards to). See the CyLogout book for the deprecated shim.

What It Is Not

• Not a process manager or session policy owner
• Not a teardown-status splash (that face is not shipping yet)
• Not the Motif cylogout dialog; interactive end-session is CySplash

In This Book

• Using CySplash -- startup tracking, chords, greying, day to day
• Command Line -- flags grouped by job
• Copyright