hide mouse pointer and boot / shutdown messages

chronicrebellion · March 3, 2017 at 4:19 AM

I'm trying to streamline/customize the entire boot up and shut down process on my htpc using LibreELEC.

Could anyone tell me how to completely hide the mouse pointer on boot up?
I can see the mouse pointer in the middle of the screen and it stays there until kodi loads and then hides itself.
I would like to never see it since I don't use a mouse.

Also is there anyway to hide the messages that show up as I boot and shutdown from LibreELEC?

Thanks!

vitorp07 · March 3, 2017 at 4:53 AM

For the messages you will have to edit your "extlinux.conf" file in the folder "flash", adding "morequiet" in the APPEND line like so;

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DEFAULT linux
PROMPT 0
 
LABEL linux
 KERNEL /KERNEL
 APPEND boot=LABEL=System  morequiet disk=LABEL=Storage  quiet

SSH and send this command;

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mount -o remount,rw /flash

make the changes to the file, then SSH and send this command;

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mount -o remount,ro /flash

reboot

chronicrebellion · March 3, 2017 at 12:30 PM

thanks for the info @vitorp07

on my Intel build, the file I edited was /flash/syslinux.cfg - i could not find extlinux.conf in /flash

it contained the same text as you mentioned so i edited it.

It appears there's no boot messages any more from LE but the when shutting down i'm still seeing messages.

**escalade** · March 3, 2017 at 4:27 PM

Add systemd.show_status=0 as well.

chronicrebellion · March 4, 2017 at 9:25 PM

Quote from escalade

Add systemd.show_status=0 as well.

do I place this at the end of the file?

what will this do?

vitorp07 · March 5, 2017 at 7:07 PM

Place it at the end of the line after "quiet" like this;

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APPEND boot=LABEL=System  morequiet disk=LABEL=Storage  quiet systemd.show_status=0

This should block you from seeing any systemd messages.

Morphy · October 5, 2020 at 10:03 AM

I've managed to achieve this on rpi 4 by adding the above to cmdline.txt in /flash so it looks like this:

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boot=UUID=xxxx-xxxx morequiet disk=UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxx quiet systemd.show_status=0

It works fine apart from I'm still seeing "waiting for network...." even though this option is disabled in LE settings. Enabling it just results in another line with the same. Any idea how I can suppress this as well?