Is there a way to display the user icon/image on the login screen?

The default one is not "root.face.icon" and I have tried all the usual tricks to create my own. You see the icon on logout, but not on login.

Edit: Made a new image, this time PNG instead of JPG. Also added it to faces folder as "cobber.face.icon" and after several reboots it finally appeared.

Hmmmm the new SDDM version is rubbish in respect of the user icons. I have exactly two possibilities to make the Avatar work:
I force an older version of sddm or I change the picture .face.icon in usr/share/sddm/faces to my avatar. But that of course only works only if you have just one user and still there s a downside. The Icon is blurred.

Yeah it is not very user friendly. The update to 5.8.2 overwrote my faces file, so I had to redo it.

I installed all the other sddm options available and Maui was the only one that included user images. I haven't tried creating a second user to see if it can pick up the two images.

The main reason I wanted it was for a community centre computer I installed Neon on. Don't need to see my own ugly mug

I don't need an avatar at the log screen as well. But I have chosen a dark background and the standard icon is dark and transparent. So if I don't use my own avatar it just looks like the circle is completely empty. And that looks just stupid.

To be honest I don't know why they changed the behaviour at all.

My login avatar is in my home folder as a .face file and another link to it as .face.icon ... that should get picked up by SDDM and not get overwritten with updates.

Also you should be able to set your avatar from the user settings, no? (it should do the right thing)

vishalrao wrote:My login avatar is in my home folder as a .face file and another link to it as .face.icon ... that should get picked up by SDDM and not get overwritten with updates. Also you should be able to set your avatar from the user settings, no? (it should do the right thing)

Yes, that's how I had mine set up and it should work, but it doesn't. No idea why.

@vishalrao which version of sddm is installed?
This is for me the expected behaviour and works until version 0.13 But with all 0.14 releases it doesn't work anymore.

Version: 0.14.0+p16.04+git20161019.0346-0

I am running KDE Neon Developer Unstable Edition though.

How do I change/add the login screen theme in KDE Neon?

Neon requires a path to avatar icon, Maui require only ,png format. Both distros have a problem with an avatar if there are multiple user.

No User Icon

SDDM reads user icon from either ~/.face.icon or FacesDir/username.face.icon

You need to make sure that SDDM user have permissions to read those files. In case you don't want to allow other users to access your $HOME you can use ACLs if your filesystem does support it.

setfacl -m u:sddm:x /home/username
setfacl -m u:sddm:r /home/username/.face.icon

from https://github.com/sddm/sddm

Nothing seems to help. Icon is a PNG, too. I was only been able to get an user icon when the screen is locked. No icon after restart and logout.
That's really sad.

I tried a long time ago and it does not work, read my comment. It is best to help you find the Arch help about SDDM.

alideda wrote:I tried a long time ago and it does not work, read my comment. It is best to help you find the Arch help about SDDM.

Thanks, read your comment and the ArchWiki about SDDM before but to no avail with my Maui 2.1 (KDE Plasma 5.8.3) right now and also tried that with KDE Neon before.

Not important than plasma versions, important is SDDM.conf. The Neon have to define the physical location where your avatar ie. user icon. You've got about a topic and the Maui forum.


edit --->/etc/sddm.conf

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[Autologin]
Relogin=false
Session=
User=

[General]
HaltCommand=
RebootCommand=

[Theme]
# Enable display of custom user avatars
EnableAvatars=true
Current=breeze
CursorTheme=breeze_cursors
#FacesDir=/usr/share/sddm/faces
FacesDir=/home/yourusename/  <-------

[Users]
MaximumUid=65000
MinimumUid=1000

ServerArguments=-nolisten tcp -dpi 192

Awesome, the combination of the two lines did the trick!

Thank you alideda!

[Theme]
# Enable display of custom user avatars
EnableAvatars=true
Current=breeze
CursorTheme=breeze_cursors
#FacesDir=/usr/share/sddm/faces
FacesDir=/home/yourusename/ <-------