[Solved]I'd like to have a picture for every user in login screen

[budulay]

I saw few screen shots on this forum where there is a picture for each user in the login screen, so i can just click on the picture, enter password and I am in. But for some reason I have a picture only for root, so when I login as ordinary user I have to type user name and password. It's not a big deal, but if it is possible to make it more comfortable, why not?
Could someone advise me how to add this picture?
Thanks in advance.

[M0E-lnx]

that depends on the login theme used and whether a picture has been set. I'm currently working on the vasmcc modules for a re.designed control center that will offer this feature

[budulay]

The most certain thing is that I didn't changed it.
It seems  that it is Bela.

Looking forward to test your vasmcc
Thanks.

[M0E-lnx]

Looking forward to test your vasmcc
Thanks.

Kool... I could use testers...
I think I have a useable interface for non-root user already, Just have to do the modules for the root user.

After the barebones of these is done, I'll ask for testers... you're more than welcome to test

[budulay]

Great! i could do two things at once - add picture to my poor user account and test some cool staff

[wcs]

Could someone advise me how to add this picture?

Edit the kdmrc file as root in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
The relevant lines are here:

Code:

# Specify, where the users' pictures should be taken from.
# "AdminOnly" - from <FaceDir>/$USER.face[.icon]
# "PreferAdmin" - prefer <FaceDir>, fallback on $HOME
# "PreferUser" - ... and the other way round
# "UserOnly" - from the user's $HOME/.face[.icon]
# Default is AdminOnly
FaceSource=PreferUser
# The directory containing the user images if FaceSource is not UserOnly.
# Default is "/usr/share/apps/kdm/faces"
FaceDir=/usr/share/apps/kdm/pics/users

As you can see I use PreferUser. With this or UserOnly, you just put a PNG file named .face in each user's home, and you're set.

[M0E-lnx]

Actually, I've been working on a vasmcc module that will take care of this at the time of creating the user account. Here is the correct procedure


The pictures are stored in /usr/share/apps/kdm/pics/users
what you do is cd to that dir
copy your pic there or choose one from the existing
make a link to your pic and name it <your_user_name>.face.icon
like

Code:

ln -s bug.png M0E-lnx.face.icon

[budulay]

Thank you very much for your replyes.

It used defaulf AdminOnly, and it had pictures for both, user and root in FaceDir. But root's image showed up on login screen, and user's - not. In fact I didn't even have user's name displayed at login scree.
When I tryed UserOnly, I just copied user's and root's images into their home directories. Then I renamed them to .face, but still user's icon and name didn't showed up. Moreover, root's image disappeared from login screen.
BTW, root's icon in mc looks like this:
http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/50e0add2f0.jpg
I think that's kind of strange...

Could you help me, please.
Thanks in advance.

[wcs]

Are you sure that the FaceSource line is uncommented?
And that your theme is Bela?

Code:

Theme=/usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/Bela

Sorry for going for the obvious, but you never know...

Moreover, root's image disappeared from login screen

That might have something to do with the HiddenUsers parameter. Comment the line that says that. In my file I have HiddenUsers=root, but you should comment that so that you get it displayed.

But root's image showed up on login screen, and user's - not

What is strange is that the user's name doesn't even show up for you to click on it.

Maybe something here:

Code:

# Enable user list (names along with images) in the greeter.
# Default is true
#UserList=false
# User selection for UserCompletion and UserList:
# "NotHidden" - all users except those listed in HiddenUsers
# "Selected" - only the users listed in SelectedUsers
# Default is NotHidden
#ShowUsers=Selected
# For ShowUsers=Selected. @<group> means all users in that group.
# Default is ""
#SelectedUsers=root,johndoe
# For ShowUsers=NotHidden. @<group> means all users in that group.
# Default is ""
HiddenUsers=root
# Special case of HiddenUsers: users with a non-zero UID less than this number
# will not be shown as well.
# Default is 0
MinShowUID=500
# Complement to MinShowUID: users with a UID greater than this number will
# not be shown as well.
# Default is 65535
MaxShowUID=65000

What you want is for the UserList, ShowUsers, and HiddenUsers lines to be commented so that you go with the defaults and it shows you both root and the users. The UID lines shouldn't be the problem, unless your user has a weird user id.
 

[wcs]

Actually, I've been working on a vasmcc module that will take care of this at the time of creating the user account

I can hardly wait for a new VasmCC release. What a great job, M0E.

[budulay]

I checked my login theme. it's Bela.
Here are some sections of my kdmrc file. I switched back to AdminOnly(this way at least root's image shows up). Also I run ls command in /usr/share/apps/kdm/pics/user directory. Any idas why it don't work? Thanks a lot foe trying to help

Code:

# Enable user list (names along with images) in the greeter.
# Default is true
#UserList=false
# User selection for UserCompletion and UserList:
# "NotHidden" - all users except those listed in HiddenUsers
# "Selected" - only the users listed in SelectedUsers
# Default is NotHidden
#ShowUsers=Selected
# For ShowUsers=Selected. @<group> means all users in that group.
# Default is ""
#SelectedUsers=root,johndoe
# For ShowUsers=NotHidden. @<group> means all users in that group.
# Default is ""
#HiddenUsers=root
# Special case of HiddenUsers: users with a non-zero UID less than this number
# will not be shown as well.
# Default is 0
MinShowUID=500
# Complement to MinShowUID: users with a UID greater than this number will
# not be shown as well.
# Default is 65535
MaxShowUID=65000

Code:

# Specify, where the users' pictures should be taken from.
# "AdminOnly" - from <FaceDir>/$USER.face[.icon]
# "PreferAdmin" - prefer <FaceDir>, fallback on $HOME
# "PreferUser" - ... and the other way round
# "UserOnly" - from the user's $HOME/.face[.icon]
# Default is AdminOnly
#FaceSource=UserOnly
# The directory containing the user images if FaceSource is not UserOnly.
# Default is "/usr/share/apps/kdm/faces"
FaceDir=/usr/share/apps/kdm/pics/users

Code:

>ls  (3299)
Apple.png
BeachBall.png
Blowfish.png
Bug.png
Butterfly.png
Car.png
Cow.png
Daemon.png
Dog.png
Elephant.png
Flower.png
Frog.png
Ghost.png
Guitar.png
Heart.png
Konqui.png
Lion.png
Monkey.png
Penguin.png
Pig.png
Rabbit.png
Ring.png
Scream.png
Shark.png
Splash.png
Star.png
Teddybear.png
Turtle.png
budulay.face.icon
default1.png
default2.png
default3.png
me.face.icon
root.face.icon
root1.png

[M0E-lnx]

Actually, I've been working on a vasmcc module that will take care of this at the time of creating the user account

I can hardly wait for a new VasmCC release. What a great job, M0E.

Here is a screenie of what it's looking like

[wcs]

Here are some sections of my kdmrc file. I switched back to AdminOnly(this way at least root's image shows up). Also I run ls command in /usr/share/apps/kdm/pics/user directory. Any idas why it don't work?

Everything seems alright to me... Having AdminOnly or any of the others should only impact on the location of the files, and nothing else...
I'm out of ideas... I assume your login name is "me" ?

[budulay]

Here is a screenie of what it's looking like

Looks great!

I assume your login name is "me" ?

Actually it's budulay.

Thanks anyway

[wcs]

Oh, yea. I had missed the budulay.face.icon file. 
I would probably install or reinstall kdebase, to get a new kdmrc and then start from there, but I don't know if you want the trouble.