Comment 1 for bug 504403

I located the place in the source where this is happening. There is a function in xsplash.c called "temporary_hack_for_initial_fade." Well, I guess the name of the function says it all. The callback to temporary_hack_for_initial_fade is set in main(). Note that the 15 is hardcoded in two different places:

static guint timeout = 15;

"Timeout (in seconds - 15s by default) ", NULL