Hello, On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:59:20 +1030 Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tim: > >> Currently I have GDM providing the logon screen, for when I use the > >> MATE desktop. Is it possible to get it to show the user face > >> pictures, without having to make user directories world executable? > >> > >> Surely there's some way for user profile pictures to be put in some > >> outside directory (not ~/username/), and have them read from there. > > Samuel Sieb: > > Did you try setting the icon parameter to something with an absolute > > path? > > If there's a place to set a path, I'd like to know about it. > > Thus far, all I know is if users put an image called .face in their > home directory, the greeter will display it. If they use one of the > desktop utilities to fill in their personal details, and choose an > image file, it creates that .face file for them. > > Of course, the greeter can't read that file when the home directory > permissions are rwx------ (and that's how they're going to stay, on > this system). > > I'd have thought there could be some /var/something... place where each > user could have their pictures stored. This is correct, from CentOS7/MATE, the menu item System/Preferences/Personal/About me allows assigning an image to your "profile". The image turns to be stored as ~/.face. Here I've set a 89x100 PNG file but I don't know exactly what is possible. The greeter shows it as expected. Regards, -- wwp
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