No user pic in login screen

[Fernando]

Hi.
I can't get the user pic to change to the one I want. When I choose it from the system settings users section it doesn't change, but remains as a silly dummy's face, although I can see the action generates two hidden files in home/myusername named .face and .face.icon that actually display the image I chose previously. Anyway, when I log out the default user pic remains.
I've tried to put a .face.icon and/or .face png image in user/share/kde4/apps/kdm/pics/users and also in user/share/sddm/faces and even to manually put them in home/myusername to no avail.
I know is a minor issue, but it annoys me.
Thanks!

[vinnywright]

user/share/sddm/faces
Thanks!

this is the corect place for the image ,,,,,,, but it must be named "yourusername.face.icon ,,,,,,,,,my user name is vinny ,,,so @hear it's

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:/usr/share/sddm/faces$ ls
root.face.icon  [COLOR=#ff0000]vinny.face.icon[/COLOR]

VINNY

[Fernando]

Thanks, vinnywright. I renamed the file as you said and still nothing...

[Fernando]

I got it!

First, I deleted the old username.face.icon that I had at /usr/share/sddm/faces which I had put there by opening a Dolphin instance as root. Second (this time as my user), using the command line, I copied the username.png file I wanted as user profile picture into the aforementioned folder by typing

sudo cp /home/[I]username[/I]/Images/[I]username[/I].png /usr/share/sddm/faces

and then I renamed it by typing

sudo mv [I]username[/I].png [I]username[/I].face.icon

.
And it worked! I guess the fact that I was using Dolphin as root before made the old username.face.icon file to be owned by root instead of my user or something similar... Go figure!

Thanks again!

[oshunluvr]

Seems to me the preferred way to do this would be to symlink each user.face.icon to the users' homes and allow them to pick their own picture - assuming a multi-user system of course.

I'll have to test this theory and report back...

[wizard10000]

My picture is in the root of my home directory and is named .face - I added it with systemsettings and it works in SDDM. I didn't choose the filename or location, the system did. All I did was point systemsettings at the picture I wanted to use

Hope this helps -