Tim wrote: >> 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? Todd Zullinger > I don't use MATE, but do still use GDM, so hopefully this is > still useful. > > When I set a custom user icon in the Gnome user properties, > the icon is converted to a 96x96 PNG file. The file is > stored in /var/lib/AccountsService/icons/$user and is > referenced via the Icon line in the corresponding users > entry within the AccountsService directory. Here's an > example: > > $ cat /var/lib/AccountsService/users/foobar > [User] > Language=en_US.UTF-8 > XSession= > PasswordHint= > Icon=/var/lib/AccountsService/icons/foobar > SystemAccount=false Yes, that works. Currently I'm working on a CentOS box, and it works there. I'll try it on the Fedora machine, later on (but I can't remember if that was using GDM). It didn't have any icon information to begin with (and I had used one of the user tools to set up my icon, already), the entire file was this: cat /var/lib/AccountsService/users/tim [User] Language=en_AU.utf8 XSession=mate SystemAccount=false And /var/lib/AccountsService/icons/ was empty. But manually adding the data did the trick. I guess the third test will be to see if the information stays (nothing else changing it automatically). I see that the "gdm" user file has filedate for today (it matches the system boot time), so something touches the files. Though another user's file's filedate shows the last time they logged in. Just did a reboot. While gdm's filedate changed, nothing else did. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 26 15:12:11 UTC 2018 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
