** Also affects: unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1002349
Title:
add ability to display user picture in Unity Greeter
Status in Unity Greeter:
New
Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
I do not report a bug actually but a suggestion to add a feature that
exited in Ubuntu before introduction of Unity Greeter as login window:
displaying user pictures in the login window.
It seems that as Unity Greeter runs as the lightdm user it is not able
to access files inside a user home directory, which usually also
includes pictures a user would choose as his/her picture in the User
Accounts tool. I guess this is the reason why Unity Greeter does not
display user pictures besides the user names.
This could be solved by creating a directory for storing user pictures
so that Unity Greeter can access them. The following command
illustrate creating the directory:
sudo mkdir /usr/share/unity-greeter/user-pictures/
sudo chmod a+wt /usr/share/unity-greeter/user-pictures/
Besides, Unity would need a means for copying the user picture file to
the above directory. The following commands illustrate this task:
# get the user picture path from the right place
PicturePath=~/foo/bar.ext
# copy the file
FileExtension=`echo $PicturePath | sed 's/.*\.//'`
cp -f $PicturePath /usr/share/unity-greeter/user-pictures/$USER.$FileExtension
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