Option to not clear screen after boot selection

[Tetja Rediske]

Hi,

with the recent addition of CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DEFERRED_TAKEOVER to the linux kernel it should be possible to boot with a nice Image from Firmware to Desktop. At the moment it looks for me like refind is clearing the banner Image after selecting an entry. Ofcourse i have set use_graphics_for and the Background color actually stays till sddm takes over. Would it be possible/feasible to add an option to not clear the banner?

Also thanks for the good work!

Kind Regards
Tetja

[Roderick W. Smith]

It'd be more than simply not clearing the image, unless you wanted rEFInd's icons and text to remain on the screen, but in principle, yes, it should be do-able. (My initial thought is that adding an option to display an arbitrary image would be best. This option could point to the banner image you're using or to something else.) I don't know if that would play well with the Linux kernel option you mention, though. This is a low priority for me personally, but my guess is it should be fairly easy to do, so I may give it a shot -- but I make no promises on that.