Hello all!
Just a quick question about the icons (people) used to represent the
users in the KDM login window.
Does anyone know where those icons are and where KDM references them
from? I'd like to be able to change from the "guy" looking one to a
"girl" looking one (if SuSE made one) for different users.
I've check the KDE control center... It's only got like 3 or 4 listed
and they're all lame compared to the little guy that's default. I just
left him in there for now, but I'd like to change it...
Initial searches proved unsuccessful... :(
Thanks in advance! :)
--
Travis Owens
KDE Control Center->System Administration->Login Manager Click on the Administrator button Give Root password Click on Users tab Click on the icon by default it goes to: /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/ I guess that you can take icons for other places but I would check the existing ones out to see what size and number of colors they are first. I have never changed them myself. On Wednesday 30 April 2003 11:22 pm, Travis Owens wrote:
Hello all!
Just a quick question about the icons (people) used to represent the users in the KDM login window.
Does anyone know where those icons are and where KDM references them from? I'd like to be able to change from the "guy" looking one to a "girl" looking one (if SuSE made one) for different users.
I've check the KDE control center... It's only got like 3 or 4 listed and they're all lame compared to the little guy that's default. I just left him in there for now, but I'd like to change it...
Initial searches proved unsuccessful... :(
Thanks in advance! :)
On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 23:35, Paul Benjamin wrote:
KDE Control Center->System Administration->Login Manager Click on the Administrator button Give Root password Click on Users tab Click on the icon by default it goes to: /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/
I guess that you can take icons for other places but I would check the existing ones out to see what size and number of colors they are first. I have never changed them myself.
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On Wednesday 30 April 2003 11:22 pm, Travis Owens wrote:
I've checked the KDE control center... It's only got like 3 or 4 listed and they're all lame compared to the little guy that's default. I just left him in there for now, but I'd like to change it...
Thanks anyways... nice try! :)
-- Travis Owens
Linux MDs
On Wednesday 30 April 2003 23:55, Travis Owens wrote:
On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 23:35, Paul Benjamin wrote:
KDE Control Center->System Administration->Login Manager Click on the Administrator button Give Root password Click on Users tab Click on the icon by default it goes to: /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/
I guess that you can take icons for other places but I would check the existing ones out to see what size and number of colors they are first. I have never changed them myself.
Read this part again! | | | V V V
On Wednesday 30 April 2003 11:22 pm, Travis Owens wrote:
I've checked the KDE control center... It's only got like 3 or 4 listed and they're all lame compared to the little guy that's default. I just left him in there for now, but I'd like to change it...
Thanks anyways... nice try! :)
-- Travis Owens
Linux MDs
In older versions, I hadn't tried it in a long time however, you could actually place just about any image there and associate it to a user. In the place I worked at the time, we took digital photos of each member of the team and placed them in that directory (after shrinking them drastically) and used them to identify the users. Of course they had to be on every one of our machines to look right, but it did work. As a matter of fact, I just did a quick test on it here using a png picture of myself and it worked great. So either get yourself a digital camera and take everyones picture, or create you a png that is 62x63 and put it in that directory and all should work fine. -- Kelly L. Fulks Home Account
Well after trying to reproduce you problem I think I found out what went wrong. You can change the user icon if you have the User,anmin or User icon radio button uder User Image source checked. If you have Admin or Admin,user checked the icon will not change. So check User, admin in User Image Source. Then pick the user from the dropdown list under User Images. Select a 64X64 pixel png file to use as the image. It appears to get copied to the /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/ and get named as <USERNAME>.PNG. According to the /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc kdm is supposed to be able to grab the png from the user's home directory in the .face directory. I haven't been able to get that to work. Here is a how-to that I found: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/KDE-GUI-Login-Configuration-HOWT... On Wednesday 30 April 2003 11:55 pm, Travis Owens wrote:
On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 23:35, Paul Benjamin wrote:
KDE Control Center->System Administration->Login Manager Click on the Administrator button Give Root password Click on Users tab Click on the icon by default it goes to: /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/
I guess that you can take icons for other places but I would check the existing ones out to see what size and number of colors they are first. I have never changed them myself.
Read this part again! | | | V V V
On Wednesday 30 April 2003 11:22 pm, Travis Owens wrote:
I've checked the KDE control center... It's only got like 3 or 4 listed and they're all lame compared to the little guy that's default. I just left him in there for now, but I'd like to change it...
Thanks anyways... nice try! :)
-- Travis Owens
Linux MDs
On Friday 02 May 2003 03:05, Paul Benjamin wrote:
It appears to get copied to the /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/ and get named as <USERNAME>.PNG. According to the /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc kdm is supposed to be able to grab the png from the user's home directory in the .face directory.
Not quite. The icon must be $HOME/.face.icon .face.icon is a filename, not a directory. You must also have the icons set to "Prefer User" or "User only" ('UserAdmin' and 'User' respectively in the control center setup GUI)
On Thursday 01 May 2003 18:05, Paul Benjamin wrote:
So check User, admin in User Image Source. Then pick the user from the dropdown list under User Images. Select a 64X64 pixel png file to use as the image.
It appears to get copied to the /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/ and get named as <USERNAME>.PNG.
I just did this a couple of days ago. I took a photo I had, and cropped and tweaked it in Gimp. I saved it as a .jpg in my /home for another user. When I browsed for the photo in Control Center>Login Manager, it grabbed a copy of it, converted it to a .png, and placed the converted copy in the /opt/kde/ directory listed above. Looks good. The user now has his own face staring back at him when he logs in, not an icon. Bernd -- "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." Antoine de St. Exupery
I know for sure there used to be a girl icon too. It's missing too from my SuSE 8.1... and from SuSE 7.3 too. This is really weird, I know for sure there was one in 6.4 completely in the same style. I will check out my cds. Op donderdag 1 mei 2003 06:22, schreef Travis Owens:
Hello all!
Just a quick question about the icons (people) used to represent the users in the KDM login window.
Does anyone know where those icons are and where KDM references them from? I'd like to be able to change from the "guy" looking one to a "girl" looking one (if SuSE made one) for different users.
I've check the KDE control center... It's only got like 3 or 4 listed and they're all lame compared to the little guy that's default. I just left him in there for now, but I'd like to change it...
Initial searches proved unsuccessful... :(
Thanks in advance! :)
Weird, I don't see it in that dir on my SuSE 6.4 cds (cd2) either. I'm 99.9% sure it exists, because it set it up for my mother some time ago. I might be able to check it out on an installed version of SuSE 6.4, that comp is currently in a closet though. Op donderdag 1 mei 2003 11:11, schreef Z_God:
I know for sure there used to be a girl icon too. It's missing too from my SuSE 8.1... and from SuSE 7.3 too. This is really weird, I know for sure there was one in 6.4 completely in the same style. I will check out my cds.
Op donderdag 1 mei 2003 06:22, schreef Travis Owens:
Hello all!
Just a quick question about the icons (people) used to represent the users in the KDM login window.
Does anyone know where those icons are and where KDM references them from? I'd like to be able to change from the "guy" looking one to a "girl" looking one (if SuSE made one) for different users.
I've check the KDE control center... It's only got like 3 or 4 listed and they're all lame compared to the little guy that's default. I just left him in there for now, but I'd like to change it...
Initial searches proved unsuccessful... :(
Thanks in advance! :)
On Thursday 01 May 2003 00:22, Travis Owens wrote:
Hello all!
Just a quick question about the icons (people) used to represent the users in the KDM login window.
Does anyone know where those icons are and where KDM references them from? I'd like to be able to change from the "guy" looking one to a "girl" looking one (if SuSE made one) for different users.
I've check the KDE control center... It's only got like 3 or 4 listed and they're all lame compared to the little guy that's default. I just left him in there for now, but I'd like to change it...
Initial searches proved unsuccessful... :(
Thanks in advance! :) ===================
Travis, Your login icons/pics are located in: /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/ Any of those can be replaced by a suitable pic of your choice, but as someone else mentioned, make them about the same size if possible. KDE3 will resize as necessary. Just rename your pic the same as the ones already there, default.png for user and root.png for root! Patrick -- --- KMail v1.5.9.1i --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
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