light dm

[carey shupe]

can you change login silhouette with your image?
I can change back ground. over all, kubunt 12.10 is working great!
any info would be appreicated.

[Jonas]

can you change login silhouette with your image?
I can change back ground. over all, kubunt 12.10 is working great!
any info would be appreicated.

I assume you mean the user picture/avatar? This is something I also wondered. LightDM search came up with this for Ubuntu/unity.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/834733
Mark Shuttleworth answer with

Noted, and thanks, but no we won't restore avatar's to the login screen.

Mark

Not that I'm surprised by the answer, Ubuntus history of removing user modification/interaction is long and dense. Nothing that have stopped Kubuntu/KDE from giving the users the power to change settings

according to the LightDM man entry it indicate that it should be able to handle this with the accountsservice but I don't find anything on how to change this, or how to fetch the user picture.

the config say (@ /etc/lightdm/users.conf )

# User accounts configuration
#
# NOTE: If you have AccountsService installed on your system, then LightDM will
# use this instead and these settings will be ignored
#
# minimum-uid = Minimum UID required to be shown in greeter
# hidden-users = Users that are not shown to the user
# hidden-shells = Shells that indicate a user cannot login
#
[UserAccounts]
minimum-uid=500
hidden-users=nobody nobody4 noaccess
hidden-shells=/bin/false /usr/sbin/nologin

Any thoughts or solutions from KFN users much appreciated

b.r

Jonas

[OneLine]

LightDM-KDE

The developer's blog: http://www.sharpley.org.uk/

A bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296303

David Edmundson 2012-09-02 22:14:25 UTC
Reopening on behalf of Alin Elena.
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David Edmundson 2012-09-02 22:25:05 UTC
Changing the filename to ".face" worked. Upstream must have broken the search for both parts.

KDE system settings > Account Details > Click to change your image

The picture is copied to the ~/.face.icon. If you rename/copy it to the ~/.face the LightDM-KDE can use it.



It is a hidden png image in your home directory (i.e mine /home/oneline/.face)

[Jonas]

Thank you Oneline! Now that you mention it, it rings a bell - I've seen that somewhere else, or here(?) but somehow forgot all about it.

thanks again. I like LightDM

b.r

Jonas

[carey shupe]

thank you all for your replies and will resolve and learn to better in kubuntu. thanks again.

[Shimapan]

Thanks, good to know.

[Euroman]

Thanks from me as well. I can confirm that

cp ~/.face.icon ~/.face

does the trick.

[oshunluvr]

Here's some other info in case anyone cares

http://www.faqoverflow.com/askubuntu/61637.html

[carey shupe]

Thank you, for the info. sorry for not reply sooner. been working on the house.

[kubicle]

KDE system settings > Account Details > Click to change your image

The picture is copied to the ~/.face.icon. If you rename/copy it to the ~/.face the LightDM-KDE can use it.

It might be preferable to create a symbolic link .face that points to .face.icon (rather than copying), as then lightdm user icon would be automatically updated if user image is changed in systemsettings (no need to copy again)

ln -s ~/.face.icon ~/.face

[Snowhog]

It might be preferable to create a symbolic link .face that points to .face.icon (rather than copying), as then lightdm user icon would be automatically updated if user image is changed in systemsettings (no need to copy again)

ln -s ~/.face.icon ~/.face

I like that. Sound recommendation.

[Achaean]

+1 from me too, for the symbolic link solution.
Using the actual file (copying-renaming), turned the LightDM background-wallpaper, to bright white.
When changed to the symbolic link, returned the background to the original-default blueish image.