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  documentation for sddm-greeter tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 11:00 +0200
    Re: documentation for sddm-greeter Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-07-27 12:50 +0200
      Re: documentation for sddm-greeter Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-07-27 13:20 +0200
    Re: documentation for sddm-greeter tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com> - 2020-07-28 05:20 +0200
      Re: documentation for sddm-greeter Andrew Cater <amacater@gmail.com> - 2020-07-28 13:50 +0200

#225311 — documentation for sddm-greeter

is there any?

the issue i'm dealing with is creating avatars on the login screen.
i'm running debian buster with the LXQt desktop.,

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#225316

On Mon, 2020-07-27 at 01:54 -0700, tom arnall wrote:
> is there any?
> 
> the issue i'm dealing with is creating avatars on the login screen.
> i'm running debian buster with the LXQt desktop.,

And the hits from Googling 'sddm avatar' aren't any good?

The top 3 hits in Google gives me the Arch wiki page which includes a
section on configuring avatars, a man page which mentions how to enable
avatars, and Reddit questions people asking about problems with
avatars.

-- 
Tixy

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#225317

On Mon, 2020-07-27 at 11:39 +0100, Tixy wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-07-27 at 01:54 -0700, tom arnall wrote:
> > is there any?
> > 
> > the issue i'm dealing with is creating avatars on the login screen.
> > i'm running debian buster with the LXQt desktop.,
> 
> And the hits from Googling 'sddm avatar' aren't any good?
> 
> The top 3 hits in Google gives me the Arch wiki page which includes a
> section on configuring avatars, a man page which mentions how to enable
> avatars, and Reddit questions people asking about problems with
> avatars.

Also, the man page for sddm-greeter in Debian says at the end 'The full
documentation for sddm is available at https://github.com/sddm/sddm'.
However, that documentation looks more empty than 'full' :-(

-- 
Tixy

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#225405

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Folks,

I put my email on the list because I was hoping that someone knew of
documentation which Google had missed. I also had read the items provided
by Google at ArchLinux and the other sites.

After reading your replies, I put sddm on another of my machines, which is
running Stretch. The result was that the avatars appeared on the greeter
screen simply by adding another user. I made no change to sddm.conf. The
machine with the problem is running Buster. Per the documentation, no
change is necessary to make avatars appear on the sddm greeter screen,
i.e., EnableAvatars=true is the default. Also, there was no need to add the
.face.icon files. Therefore, the problem is with the installation of sddm
on Buster, i.e., with Buster. My solution is to drop back to Stretch on the
problem machine. I have found several other problems with Buster.

Thanks very much for your replies.

Regards,

Tom Arnall


On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 1:54 AM tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com> wrote:

> is there any?
>
> the issue i'm dealing with is creating avatars on the login screen.
> i'm running debian buster with the LXQt desktop.,
>

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#225416

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Hi Tom,

Ah, if you'd said some or all of that previously, you might have had a
slightly politer response - sorry if I was grumpy. Please _DON'T_ drop back
to Stretch: with the final release, it's just transitioned to LTS. That
transition means that it will still be well supported for security issues
and issues that matter to specific funders but smaller things won't be
given as much priority.

Raise a bug / research a bit deeper / get someone to correct the wiki so
the next person doesn't have the same problem. Small issues only get
brought to somebody's attention occasionally - it may not have been
something that the package maintainer experienced if they only installed
one user or whatever. You've piqued my interest enough that I might go
install a VM and dig for myself.

All the very best, as ever,

Andy C.

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 3:18 AM tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I put my email on the list because I was hoping that someone knew of
> documentation which Google had missed. I also had read the items provided
> by Google at ArchLinux and the other sites.
>
> After reading your replies, I put sddm on another of my machines, which is
> running Stretch. The result was that the avatars appeared on the greeter
> screen simply by adding another user. I made no change to sddm.conf. The
> machine with the problem is running Buster. Per the documentation, no
> change is necessary to make avatars appear on the sddm greeter screen,
> i.e., EnableAvatars=true is the default. Also, there was no need to add the
> .face.icon files. Therefore, the problem is with the installation of sddm
> on Buster, i.e., with Buster. My solution is to drop back to Stretch on the
> problem machine. I have found several other problems with Buster.
>
> Thanks very much for your replies.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom Arnall
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 1:54 AM tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> is there any?
>>
>> the issue i'm dealing with is creating avatars on the login screen.
>> i'm running debian buster with the LXQt desktop.,
>>
>

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