1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" 3 "http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd"> 4<!-- section history: 5 2009-04-01 ude: rewritten based on the German text 6 2009-02-17 j.h: reviewed for v2.6 7 2008-07-20 KoSt: added 'no' 8 2007-06-21 Added Spanish translation by AntI 9 2007-05-16: ude: German translation 10 2007-05-10: created by j.h 11--> 12<sect1 id="customize-splashscreen"> 13 <title>Customize Splash-Screen</title> 14 15 <indexterm> 16 <primary>Customize</primary> 17 <secondary>Splash-screen</secondary> 18 </indexterm> 19 <indexterm> 20 <primary>Splash-screen</primary> 21 </indexterm> 22 23 <para> 24 When you start <acronym>GIMP</acronym>, you see the 25 <emphasis>splash-screen</emphasis> displaying short status messages while 26 the program is loading all its components. 27 </para> 28 <para> 29 Of course, you can customize the splash-screen: Create a 30 <filename class="directory">splashes</filename> directory in your personal 31 <acronym>GIMP</acronym> folder 32 (<filename class="directory">/home/user_name/.config/GIMP/2.10/</filename> 33 on Linux, <filename class="directory" 34 role="html">C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\</filename> 35 <filename class="directory" 36 role="tex">C:\\Documents and Settings\\user_name\\AppData\\Roaming\\GIMP\\2.10\\</filename> 37 on Windows). 38 </para> 39 <para> 40 Copy your image(s) into this 41 <filename class="directory">splashes</filename> directory. On start, 42 <acronym>GIMP</acronym> will read this directory and choose one of the 43 images at random. 44 </para> 45 46 <tip> 47 <para>Make sure that your images aren't too small.</para> 48 </tip> 49</sect1> 50