This came up in the Saluki thread and it seems like it would be helpful to have a very brief how to on customizing this start up image.
Saluki is a rockin' version of Puppy, but a couple of people expressed the desire to change the 'Loading...' message that is displayed in the start up.
That message is simply an image, saved in /usr/share/pixmaps/loading.xbm.
Gimp opens this image just fine and you can certainly just modify this image and save it and your start up image would change.
(Thanks to Battleshooter for testing this out for us)!
The image is an indexed image (as opposed to RGB mode) and seems to be set as black and white 1 index (easily able to set that in Gimp via image, mode, then set it to indexed rather than RGB).
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The file /root/.xinitrc in one of the early lines calls on that image (look for 'loading.xbm' in the file). By editing that line you can have this action call on a different image. I have only tested it with the same type of format image and it will only work in black and white (it seems).
You do all this at your own risk, of course.
So, just a few minutes ago, I added this image to /usr/share/pixmaps and called it loading-salukiblack.xbm, indexed/set up the same way via gimp. I then modified the line in /root/.xinitrc to point to loading-salukiblack.xbm rather than the previous image and it worked like a charm.
Further info about XFCE: you can also modify the splash image by running:
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xfce4-session-settings
By using these tools you can have your startup image of Saluki look any way you want.