User picture?

Desktop Environments
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I can’t add a picture of my user in Gnome. I have allways manage that erlier, is there à bug of some kind?

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Can you explain in more detail? Why can’t you add a picture? What are the specific steps you are following? Are you getting an error?

3

I go to settings and then user click on the circle then browse to my user picture and then add but nothing happens, I have done this a lot of times and it have always work.

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can you try adding the picture to users home dir and rename it to .face ?

5

Ok I try that later.

Thanks

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This is due to a bug in accountservices packages. will be fixed in 22.04.64 or newer.

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seems this:

local/accountsservice 22.04.62-2
    D-Bus interface for user account query and manipulation
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seems to be the same issue on plasma too!
2022-02-08_21-04
Error on saving the Changes
But putting an avatar in png at home folder and rename it to .face is working here…
2022-02-08_21-06

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9

same on GNOME:
gnomeface

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10

I can confirm this.

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11

Another case where changing a file directly is king over a GUI :wink:

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12

This only changes it in the settings, in the menu, lockscreen and login there is still no profile picture shown

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true :wink: in Plasma it works for login screen in GNOME not …
trick 17?
sudo cp /home/joe/.face /usr/share/pixmaps/faces/joe.png
and it is available as one of the default pictures :wink:
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I’m using plasma but I’ll give it a go that way now

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/usr/share/plasma/avatars would be the one for plasma ?

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Cool, was just about to post I was getting an error from the other command

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but does not do the trick also on plasma :wink: it fails the same way also for the default avatars in the settings…

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Just noticed that, all good, i only ever see it when I log in anyways.
However I still cannot get it to change for the menu, login etc
It only changes in the settings for me with the original method posted, even after a reboot

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i hacked it it seems the issue is with the service file for AccountsService:
sudo nano /usr/lib/systemd/system/accounts-daemon.service
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this is set to
PrivateTmp=true
setting it to:
PrivateTmp=false
and reboot will solve it :wink:

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Cool, I’ll give a go soon