{"id":39421,"date":"2019-03-20T09:54:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T07:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=39421"},"modified":"2019-03-20T09:55:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T07:55:02","slug":"fedora-linux-change-user-icon-in-gdm-login","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/20\/fedora-linux-change-user-icon-in-gdm-login\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedora Linux : Change user icon in GDM login"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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In general, I’m pretty happy with my desktop setup. I use MATE with i3<\/a> on my Fedora Linux laptop for quite some time now, and it works well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, there was one annoying tidbit that I decided to fix today – my user icon on the login screen. I remember that I used to have it at some point, but it disappeared during some upgrade a few month ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The login screen is managed by Gnome Display Manager (GDM). In previous versions, you could easily customize the user icon via either some GUI tools for users and groups, or by simply dropping your icon into ~\/.face<\/em> file, in, preferably, PNG format, and GDM would pick it up just fine. Turns out, not anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took me a few Google searches to find the solution<\/a>, so I’m sharing it here (just replace ‘leonid’ everywhere with your own username):<\/p>\n\n\n

\n# Copy the user icon file\nsudo cp \/home\/leonid\/.face \/usr\/share\/pixaps\/faces\/leonid.png\n# Edit user settings file and add the following line:\n# Icon=\/usr\/share\/pixaps\/faces\/leonid.png\nsudo vim \/var\/lib\/AccountsService\/users\/leonid\n# Logging out is not enough, so just ...\nreboot\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n
Once your system restarts, you should see the proper user icon on the login screen.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
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