In account details, I believe I could in the past take a photo with a webcam and save that photo to my account details as administrator or operator. Now this option no longer functions. I can take a photo with either ‘Cheese’ or ‘Kamoso’ and save that to my adminstrator account in account details. I don’t know why this dropped or no longer functions. . . .any thoughts or idea’s on this?
Rich;)
I believed it once worked in the distant past and now it’s been dropped altogether.
Rich 
let me check…
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_user.py", line 141, in _on_face_photo_menuitem_activated
if 0 != subprocess.call(["streamer", "-j90", "-t8", "-s800x600", "-o", "/tmp/temp-account-pic00.jpeg"]):
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 389, in call
with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as p:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 1024, in __init__
self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 1917, in _execute_child
raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'streamer'
seems that the tool streamer does not exist… no clue where it should come from…
I can hack the used script to use something else and it does work after installing fswebcam (yay -S fswebcam)
/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_user.py
# streamer takes -t photos, uses /dev/video0
if 0 != subprocess.call(["fswebcam", "--skip", "8", "--jpeg", "95", "--resolution=800x600", "--save", "/tmp/temp-account-pic00.jpeg"]):
print("Error: Webcam not available")
return
# Use the 8th frame (the webcam takes a few frames to "lighten up")
path = "/tmp/temp-account-pic00.jpeg"
# Crop the image to thumbnail size
image = Image.open(path)
width, height = image.size
if width > height:
new_width = height
new_height = height
elif height > width:
new_width = width
new_height = width
else:
new_width = width
new_height = height
left = (width - new_width) / 2
top = (height - new_height) / 2
right = (width + new_width) / 2
bottom = (height + new_height) / 2
image = image.crop((left, top, right, bottom))
face_path = os.path.join(self.accountService.get_home_dir(), ".face")
image.save(face_path, "png")
self.accountService.set_icon_file(face_path)
self.face_button.set_picture_from_file(face_path)
it has originally this:
# streamer takes -t photos, uses /dev/video0
if 0 != subprocess.call(["streamer", "-j90", "-t8", "-s800x600", "-o", "/tmp/temp-account-pic00.jpeg"]):
print("Error: Webcam not available")
return
# Use the 8th frame (the webcam takes a few frames to "lighten up")
path = "/tmp/temp-account-pic07.jpeg"
So we could go find out what is stream or what is providing it…
Good detective work. . . . you must be good with python. . . . I’ve got books on python, perl, java but some of them use the worse learning examples and require you to read chapters with the authors examples rather that giving a person quick easy guide to accomplish what you want and need quickly without too much exterraneous stuff to get there. I keep telling myself someday I’ll buckle down and learn a lot of this stuff but I’m getting too old and my attention span isn’t like it use to be.
Rich 
i had some fun with it indeed
but i was really wondering why it uses an application you can not find everywhere… could be i go installing mint to catch it…
looks like it’s part of this xawtv package: https://www.mankier.com/package/xawtv
wau good catch!
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xawtv
in AUR only and… still updated… xawtv-3.107.tar.bz2 2020-05-15…
someone could try installing it… me not now… may the next days…
Sure, I did. If you install xawtv from AUR and apply this patch, then it works.
still…the ANTIALIAS thingy … screwed… but yea arch is to fast.
Thank you for this! Installing this package solved this issue on Arch.
