Yes, I suggest logging a bug/enhancement request against gnome-control-
center:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues
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Formally it is not a bug, basically it is a user error. However to avoid
these type of bug reports in future, you might define it as a low
priority bug or change request. There are reasons to block photo folders
from access by the world for privacy reasons. Anybody using a photo from
such a
The login screen runs as a regular unprivileged user 'gdm' (not root) so
it does (apparently) require that you make any images world-readable in
order for user 'gdm' to be able to read them.
Although I find this slightly surprising. A better design might be for
gnome-control-center to copy the
Using chmod 644 did fix the problem and the photo is now also displayed
in the login screen.
Setting the permission to 660 did restore the old situation, the photo
is not displayed in the login screen but in all other screens after login.
I assume the permissions did not really allow root read
Actually the login screen is rendered by 'gnome-shell'.
I wonder - can you please find the photo file and tell us what its
permissions are?
You may want to try changing the permissions in a terminal with:
chmod 644 yourphoto.jpg
then reboot and tell us if that fixes the problem.
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