On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 12:19:54PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 16:56 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:48 -0400, Louis E Garcia II wrote: > > > I put a pix of myself in the 'about me' capplet and have a .face in my > > > home dir. Why doesn't gdm pick it up? > > > > Check the permissions on your home directory and ~/.face. > > > > If your home directory doesn't allow for the gdm user to access ~/.face, > > then it won't work... > > Actually it's supposed to work because the gdm greeter gets the faces > through a pipe from the master gdm process which is running as root. That it's running as root doesn't mean that it will always have access to a home directory, the home might be on NFS or AFS for example. Kostas -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
