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Bug 611383 - Error changing face image
Error changing face image
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: User Accounts
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-02-28 11:02 UTC by Angel Abad
Modified: 2010-11-21 02:31 UTC
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Description Angel Abad 2010-02-28 11:02:26 UTC 
From ubuntu karmic:

I change my face image in gnome-about-me by selecting About Me from the system menu. I select my face image, let's say by selecting the dice.jpg file in the /usr/share/pixmaps/faces directory. ~/.face is created. I restart twice and the dice image is shown as my face image in the face browser.

I now manually change the ~/.face file to astronaut.jpg (cp /usr/share/pixmaps/faces/astronaut.jpg ~/.face). When I restart, the astronaut image is now shown as my face image in the face browser but the dice image is still shown as the face image in gnome-about-me. The face image in gnome-about-me should also change even if the ~/.face file is manually changed.

Also, according to Section 2.6 at http://library.gnome.org/admin/gdm/stable/overview.html.en, I should be able to show a face image in the face browser by creating a file called <username> in the /usr/share/pixmaps/faces directory. This does not work. I am not sure if this is by design in Karmic or if it's a bug.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2010-11-21 02:31:16 UTC 
This should work in more recent GDMs, and with the user-accounts panel in GNOME 3.x, as they both use the accounts D-Bus service to get information about the user's avatar.