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AsuToki360

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Registered: 2024-04-19

Posts: 7

[GNOME] Custom profile picture not being applied correctly.

Hey, I just came back to Arch for a while, and when I was installing it, everything was fine, except when I tried to change the icon of my profile.

For some reason it doesn't apply, it's just blank, and checking the file in /var/lib/AccountsService/icons, it's blank, and no error logs while running gnome-control-center in verbose with or without sudo...

Any fix for this or did I miss a package during setup? (I used archinstall btw, hope that it doesn't bother too much knowing the community)

tekstryder

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Registered: 2013-02-14

Posts: 252

Re: [GNOME] Custom profile picture not being applied correctly.

no error logs

Hmm. See:

• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=304512

-and-

• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-co … ssues/3402

with...sudo...

Don't do that.

AsuToki360

Member

Registered: 2024-04-19

Posts: 7

Re: [GNOME] Custom profile picture not being applied correctly.

no error logs

Hmm. See:

• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=304512

-and-

• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-co … ssues/3402

with...sudo...

Don't do that.

Yeah, I already checked those, but in my case the settings doesn't crash when adding a profile pic.

I was able to add my profile pic by replacing the blank file with the image I wanted with the terminal, so yeah

I already sent the issue in Gnome's Gitlab just in case.

tekstryder

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Registered: 2013-02-14

Posts: 252

Re: [GNOME] Custom profile picture not being applied correctly.

Yeah, I already checked those, but in my case the settings doesn't crash when adding a profile pic.

I already sent the issue in Gnome's Gitlab just in case.

Well, you should have mentioned all of that initially instead of wasting people's time here.

Having read the other thread, you could have provided the related info that could help...GPU/drivers, X11 or Wayland.., etc.

And, you provided zero log output.

Launch g-c-c with the following command, try setting a custom avatar, and post the full output using [code][/code] tags.

GSK_RENDERER=ngl G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all gnome-control-center

If this is indeed a separate issue from the other thread/issue we need to know why it's different when the same component is failing.

AsuToki360

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Registered: 2024-04-19

Posts: 7

Re: [GNOME] Custom profile picture not being applied correctly.

Well, you should have mentioned all of that initially instead of wasting people's time here.

Having read the other thread, you could have provided the related info that could help...GPU/drivers, X11 or Wayland.., etc.

And, you provided zero log output.

Ok dude but chill, I haven't used Arch in a long while tbh, and when I used it I had KDE instead of Gnome, oddly enough I didn't have this issue in Gnome 47. (Sorry if I offended you a bit, I don't wanna sound mean in this comm)

Launch g-c-c with the following command, try setting a custom avatar, and post the full output using [code][/code] tags.

GSK_RENDERER=ngl G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all gnome-control-center

Well I don't see any errors when I changed the profile pic, just a warning:

20:58:24.1026            cc-window[18304]: WARNING: Could not find settings panel "GSK_RENDERER=ngl"

Just in case here's my specs:

# System Details Report
---

## Report details
- **Date generated:**                              2025-04-06 21:01:20

## Hardware Information:
- **Hardware Model:**                              ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z
- **Memory:**                                      8.0 GiB
- **Processor:**                                   AMD Phenom™ II X6 1100T × 6
- **Graphics:**                                    AMD Radeon™ RX 590 GME
- **Disk Capacity:**                               1.4 TB

## Software Information:
- **Firmware Version:**                            2201
- **OS Name:**                                     Arch Linux
- **OS Build:**                                    rolling
- **OS Type:**                                     64-bit
- **GNOME Version:**                               48
- **Windowing System:**                            Wayland
- **Kernel Version:**                              Linux 6.13.8-arch1-1