Login Bitmap for Windowmanager GDM

Discussion in 'Linux' started by Dros, Sep 23, 2008.

  1. Dros

    Dros

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    Hi folks,

    if you got autologin disabled and probably your name in the gdm login window, you might want also your picture instead of the questionmark.

    It's very easy to make that.

    Go into the Webcam App of the acer, make a friendly face and do a snaphot. :) The picture is in your homedir under pictures (this can vary because of the localization). The picture taken is to big and has the wrong fileformat, so you need to cut it and export it.

    Start a painting program like gPainter or gimp and load that picture, and cut out your face and insert it as a new picture.
    Now you need to resize it to 45x48 pixels
    Save it to your homedir as a PNG file with the name .face (save it to ~/.face then it's at the right place)
    Some programs attach a .png to the filename, so most certainly you have a file called .face.png in you homedir. At least gPainter did that.
    Go into the terminal and set the name an the permissions right:

    Code:
    mv .face.png .face
    chmod 644 .face
    That's all, after a reboot you'll see your picture at the login screen.

    Hint: Most errors will occur if the file is not at the right place. Be sure it is at the top of your homedir (~/), has the right name and permission.

    cu
    Dros
     
    Dros, Sep 23, 2008
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