Re: gdm3 - how to put a picture on the login screen?
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:55:42PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > In an effort to make my life with wheezy more beautiful/serene and > less silly-looking, I've been exploring ways to personalize the > various screen parts. > > The gdm3 login screen by default provides a list of possible users > and their names with a place that looks like it's intended to hold a > picture (or avatar, if you will) of the person. > > How does one set that avatar to something more interesting than the > default shadow head? > Get a picture file and name it /home/$USER/.face GDM3 will/should find that and add it to the face browser. I recall reading that you could also add a picture in "About Me" in System, Preferences. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120123232723.gc19...@aurora.owens.net
Re: gdm3 - how to put a picture on the login screen?
On 23/01/12 18:17, Rick Thomas wrote: > On 01/22/12 20:52, Tony Baldwin wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:55:42PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: >>> In an effort to make my life with wheezy more beautiful/serene and >>> less silly-looking, I've been exploring ways to personalize the >>> various screen parts. >>> >>> The gdm3 login screen by default provides a list of possible users >>> and their names with a place that looks like it's intended to hold a >>> picture (or avatar, if you will) of the person. >>> >> Here's my gdm login screen: >> http://tonybaldwin.me/imgs/myGDMloginscreen.jpg >> Definitely possible to customize it. >> But, this is on Squeeze, and was done with the GDM Setup >> in the Debian menu. >> (I don't know for sure where that is in Gnome, since I'm using openbox, >> but I would guess >> Applications> System> Administration> GDM Setup >> >>> How does one set that avatar to something more interesting than the >>> default shadow head? Locate the default shadow head? Locate the file mentioning the shadow head? >> same GDM Setup program offers this, as well. >> >> ./tony > Well, wheezy uses the gnome3 train-wreck. It doesn't seem to have > anything resembling > > Applications> System> Administration> GDM Setup > > I've googled til I'm blue in the face, I've guessed based on my googling > that I need to manually edit something in the [greeter] section of > /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf but there doesn't seem to be a human readable > explanation of the available options I could put there and what they do. > > Any clues are welcome! > > Rick > > > /usr/share/pixmaps ? Sorry, don't have a GNOME to check, but gdm shares a some settings with kdm. Cheers -- Iceweasel/Firefox extensions for finding answers to Debian questions:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ NOTE: new update available for Debian Buttons (New button for querying Debian Developer Package):- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/debian-buttons/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f1d1d30.9070...@gmail.com
Re: gdm3 - how to put a picture on the login screen?
On 01/22/12 20:52, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:55:42PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: In an effort to make my life with wheezy more beautiful/serene and less silly-looking, I've been exploring ways to personalize the various screen parts. The gdm3 login screen by default provides a list of possible users and their names with a place that looks like it's intended to hold a picture (or avatar, if you will) of the person. Here's my gdm login screen: http://tonybaldwin.me/imgs/myGDMloginscreen.jpg Definitely possible to customize it. But, this is on Squeeze, and was done with the GDM Setup in the Debian menu. (I don't know for sure where that is in Gnome, since I'm using openbox, but I would guess Applications> System> Administration> GDM Setup How does one set that avatar to something more interesting than the default shadow head? same GDM Setup program offers this, as well. ./tony Well, wheezy uses the gnome3 train-wreck. It doesn't seem to have anything resembling Applications> System> Administration> GDM Setup I've googled til I'm blue in the face, I've guessed based on my googling that I need to manually edit something in the [greeter] section of /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf but there doesn't seem to be a human readable explanation of the available options I could put there and what they do. Any clues are welcome! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f1d09a7.7090...@pobox.com
Re: gdm3 - how to put a picture on the login screen?
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:55:42PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > In an effort to make my life with wheezy more beautiful/serene and > less silly-looking, I've been exploring ways to personalize the > various screen parts. > > The gdm3 login screen by default provides a list of possible users > and their names with a place that looks like it's intended to hold a > picture (or avatar, if you will) of the person. > Here's my gdm login screen: http://tonybaldwin.me/imgs/myGDMloginscreen.jpg Definitely possible to customize it. But, this is on Squeeze, and was done with the GDM Setup in the Debian menu. (I don't know for sure where that is in Gnome, since I'm using openbox, but I would guess Applications > System > Administration > GDM Setup > How does one set that avatar to something more interesting than the > default shadow head? same GDM Setup program offers this, as well. ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120123015208.ga9...@deathstar.hsd1.ct.comcast.net
gdm3 - how to put a picture on the login screen?
In an effort to make my life with wheezy more beautiful/serene and less silly-looking, I've been exploring ways to personalize the various screen parts. The gdm3 login screen by default provides a list of possible users and their names with a place that looks like it's intended to hold a picture (or avatar, if you will) of the person. How does one set that avatar to something more interesting than the default shadow head? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f1cb00e.9000...@pobox.com
