personal login icon

[vinnywright]

OK maybe I'm slow ,,,,,,or missed the memo .

but this seams to forever be a changing ,,,,,,, it used to be just a .face in ~/ would serfice to get your icon on the login screen .

well NOW you must place the icon in /usr/share/sddm/faces/ as vinny.face.icon change "vinny" to your user name so it looks like this

 /usr/share/sddm/faces/vinny.face.icon

just posting this in case it has been perplexing any one else

VINNY

[MoonRise]

Was wondering about that! Thanks!

[vinnywright]

Was wondering about that! Thanks!

and so , it was worth the typing

VINNY

[woodsmoke]

dunno, i'm not too bright but...

system settings / account details / user manager / in the rightmost panel click the icon next to "name" and navigate to the desired image.

woodnotaclikindaguy

[Rog131]

Avatar

KDE bug reports:

- Bug 361460 - avatar change does no effect in sddm login manager : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361460
- Bug 370358 - GIve sddm user home folder and .face.icon ACL rights in order to load the avatar : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370358

KDE Review:

- Load user's avatar from AccountsService if it exists - https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128951/


Meanwhile: (Arch) Sddm wiki - Avatar: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ng_your_avatar

Changing your avatar

You can simply put a png image named username.face.icon into the default directory /usr/share/sddm/faces/. Alternatively you can change the default directory to match your desires:

/etc/sddm.conf
[Theme]
FacesDir=/var/lib/AccountsService/icons/

You can also put a png image named .face.icon at the root of your home directory. However, you need to make sure that sddm user can read that file.

Note: SDDM cannot read avatars which are symlinks.

Earlier - KDE SDDM video background: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?...131783#p364567

[vinnywright]

dunno, i'm not too bright but...

system settings / account details / user manager / in the rightmost panel click the icon next to "name" and navigate to the desired image.

woodnotaclikindaguy

ya ,,well that had not been working @hear ,,,,,,,,,BUT I don't think I tried it that way since getting upped to plasma 5.8.1 and now 5.8.2 ............OOPS

@Rog131 , thank you for the info ,,,,,,as always you are a plethora of information ,,,, and that is why I always look at your posts when I see them weather I'm having the particular problem or not

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

It's BAAAACCCCK!

I noticed a few weeks ago that the my pic on the login screen (/usr/share/sddm/faces/jerry.face.icon) was no longer showing and had reverted back to the iconic image.
My image linked on systemsettings-->account details still shows my image (/var/AccountsService/face) on the LOGOUT screen.
I've tried links, to my home account from /usr... instead of dropping the png file in there. I've tried changing ownership from root to me and back. Just about every combo possible but nothing works.

[Rog131]

It's BAAAACCCCK!

I noticed a few weeks ago that the my pic on the login screen (/usr/share/sddm/faces/jerry.face.icon) was no longer showing and had reverted back to the iconic image.
My image linked on systemsettings-->account details still shows my image (/var/AccountsService/face) on the LOGOUT screen.
I've tried links, to my home account from /usr... instead of dropping the png file in there. I've tried changing ownership from root to me and back. Just about every combo possible but nothing works.

KDE Forums: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?...374337#p374337

- the Plasma (5.9.4) is using user's avatar from AccountsService if it exists
- the SDDM (not a KDE application) is using user's avatar from AccountsService if it is told to do so:

/etc/sddm.conf
[Theme]
FacesDir=/var/lib/AccountsService/icons/

- the KDE User manager is writing the user's avatar to the home directory: files '.name' and '.name.face.icon' - note the dot !
- the KDE User manager (5.9.4) is also writing the user's avatar to the /var/lib/AccountsService/icons/ : 'name'
- the SDDM 0.14.0 is looking the user's avatar from the /var/lib/AccountsService/icons/name.face.icon. It doesn't look the file: 'name'.
- the user can link the 'name' files to the 'name.face.icon' at the /var/lib/AccountsService/icons/

With the Neon & SDDM 0.14.0: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371232


At here:
AccountsService:


SDDM:


KDE/Plasma5:

[GreyGeek]

With the Neon & SDDM 0.14.0: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371232

So, sddm has NOT had a workable update for Neon in 7 1/2 months? (From Sept 1st).

soee referenced this pull request 8 days ago

Open

sddm breeze: user icons/avatars do not show #807

What you show as working for you (below) is NOT working for me:

SDDM:

All of my icons look like your guest icon. Changing any of the underlying files and/or names doesn't work, so something automatic is going on in the background and calling up images from "failsafe" places.


But my LOGOUT screen works, just like yours:

KDE/Plasma5:

And, as you would suspect, my system does NOT have the /etc/sddm.conf file. My sddm.conf file is located in /etc/init and does not have a "Themes" section.

[Rog131]

I have a patched SDDM (Arch).

SDDM issue tracker:
- User avatars are not displayed in 0.14.0: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/685

You could try the home directory workaround. KDE Forums Neon: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=309&t=136782

The SDDM AccountsService name/name.face.icon issue (maybe ?): https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/683

[GreyGeek]

I have a patched SDDM (Arch).

SDDM issue tracker:
- User avatars are not displayed in 0.14.0: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/685

You could try the home directory workaround. KDE Forums Neon: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=309&t=136782

The SDDM AccountsService name/name.face.icon issue (maybe ?): https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/683

I noticed that forum.kde.org link references led to systems using Wayland. My installation is still on Plymouth, not Wayland.

I've deleted all icons out of /usr/share/sddm/faces except my own, and the default icon still shows up on the login screen. I'm going to try to find out where sddm is getting that icon file from, and change it.

[vinnywright]

strange ,,,,mines still their

VINNY

[vinnywright]

BUT I'm using Rog's breeze-slider sddm-theme

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

Where do you have your icon files placed, and how are you naming them, and is a "." the first character of any of them?

[GreyGeek]

personal login icon

Here's how:
I had to create
/etc/sddm.conf
and put into it the following:
[QUOTE]
[Autologin]
Relogin=false
Session=
User=


[General]
HaltCommand=
RebootCommand=


[Theme]
# Enable display of custom user avatars
EnableAvatars=true
FacesDir=/var/lib/AccountsService/icons