On Sun, 2021-12-12 at 17:30 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > In the end, it didn't matter. I attempted to create $HOME/.face > myself, using just the available tools, namely gimp, by cropping and > saving my mug shot. I failed, since gimp was very confused by my > attempts to save a jpg- formatted image as $HOME/.face, going only as > far as $HOME/.jpg, so I relented and renamed it manually. In the end, > nothing changed, and the greeter still showed the default, feature- > less profile picture. I even rebooted, so, who knows what the problem > is. Maybe it has to be a .gif. Maybe it has to be .png. Maybe it is > being blocked by SELinux, who knows.
On *this* installation (MATE on CentOS, my other computer runs Fedora, and it's not switched on right now), ~/.face is a PNG file (some gadget it created it in that format when I picked my image). But that approach suffers from various file permissions problems, as you've discovered: Your home directory, and that file, would need to be world readable for the login greeter to be able read that file. I don't allow world-readable home directories. At some stage I discovered that the MATE login greeter can read user icons from "/var/lib/AccountsService/icons/", so I put files in there for users with the same filename as the username, plus a png suffix. e.g. Mine is /var/lib/AccountsService/icons/tim.png All the user icons in that directory are owned by root:root. I don't recall how I discovered that, nor if I had to do anything else to make that work (I suspect I didn't, it just looks there). It might even be done by one of the "about me" menu items in MATE. Placing appropriately named image files in that directory might work for other login greeters. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.49.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 30 15:51:32 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
