A fullscreen splash-screen wrapper for launching a game or app. It displays an image (or a fallback black screen), starts your executable, and closes when the process exits or loses focus after launch.

Features

Fullscreen, borderless splash screen with hidden cursor (SDL2)
Displays a supplied image via SDL2_image (fallback to black if load fails)
Launches the target executable and exits when it finishes
Hides on focus loss after the game starts or closes on Esc

Build Requirements

C compiler (GCC or Clang)
make
pkg-config
SDL2
SDL2_image

Install

Arch Linux (PKGBUILD) for integrating with your system package manager:

makepkg -si

For other distributions, build and install manually:

# Build the binary in the project root
make

# Install system-wide (defaults to /usr/local)
sudo make install

# Staged install (useful for packaging):
DESTDIR=/some/staging/path make install

Smoke test (headless)

Run a lightweight headless smoke test that uses the dummy video driver so it doesn't require a display:

make check

Usage

./gsplash <image_path> <game_executable> [game_arguments...]

Example:

./gsplash assets/splash.jpg /path/to/game --fullscreen --profile=default