Re: Change user icon (avatar) as non-root

2020-06-25 Thread Grzegorz Szymaszek
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 09:27:19PM +0200, Helge Reimer wrote: > For me, "Activate system administration rights for this user" is checked in > System settings -> User account details -> User administration. I do not have this option checked. Note that I am on Plasma 5.17 from bullseye, it may wo

Re: Change user icon (avatar) as non-root

2020-06-25 Thread Helge Reimer
Am Donnerstag, 25. Juni 2020, 21:13:39 CEST schrieb Grzegorz Szymaszek: > I had tried setting a new icon via System Settings. I did not enter root > password in the prompts that appeared, but it turns out the avatar (the > ~/.face.icon file) was actually updated. I am on bullseye, not sure if > it

Re: Change user icon (avatar) as non-root

2020-06-25 Thread Grzegorz Szymaszek
Hi, If you use SDDM, just put the icon (as a PNG file) in ~/.face.icon. You may need to adjust permissions of this file, see (that ArchWiki page contains other solutions as well). HTH -- Grzegorz signature.asc Description: PGP si

Re: Change user icon (avatar) as non-root

2020-06-25 Thread Grzegorz Szymaszek
I had tried setting a new icon via System Settings. I did not enter root password in the prompts that appeared, but it turns out the avatar (the ~/.face.icon file) was actually updated. I am on bullseye, not sure if it works the same in buster. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Change user icon (avatar) as non-root

2020-06-25 Thread Helge Reimer
Hello, Another user on my laptop running Debian stable with kde plasma wants to change his user icon occasionally. It is currently only available as root or via sudo. However, the user is not a candidate for sudo unless he is very limited. Is there a way to allow the user to change the icon some