Tim via users 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? > > Surely there's some way for user profile pictures to be put in some > outside directory (not ~/username/), and have them read from there.
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
$ ls -l /var/lib/AccountsService/icons/foobar
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2.6K Oct 23 09:24 /var/lib/AccountsService/icons/foobar
$ file /var/lib/AccountsService/icons/foobar
/var/lib/AccountsService/icons/foobar: PNG image data, 96 x 96, 8-bit/color
RGB, non-interlaced
You may be able to manually configure that if the MATE user
properties tools don't do it automatically.
--
Todd
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