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stevenmw

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Registered: 2014-10-12

Posts: 48

[Solved] AccountsService isn't working with LightDM

I'm using XFCE, and I want to have my picture at my LightDM login screen.

I followed the wiki article found at; https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … ervice_way

My username is steven so I created

/var/lib/AccountsService/users/steven

I added the lines

[User]
Icon=/var/lib/AccountsService/icons/steven.png

Then I created

/var/lib/AccountsService/icons

And I added a file called steven.png that is 96x96 px

So I reboot only to see it didn't work. I checked my /AccountsService/steven file and it currently looks like

[User]
Language=en_US.utf8
XSession=xfce
Icon=/var/lib/AccountsService/icons/steven.png
SystemAccount=false

Why might AccountsService not be working? Is there something else in the system I need to change to do away with the default?

Last edited by stevenmw (2014-11-06 16:21:22)

stevenmw

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Registered: 2014-10-12

Posts: 48

Re: [Solved] AccountsService isn't working with LightDM

I've resolved my own issue. The AccountsService folder and sub-folders needed to be chmodded. So I ran the following command and rebooted.

sudo chmod 755 -R /var/lib/AccountsService

I've updated the wiki page; https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … ervice_way

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Correct permission is 644, wiki has been corrected. Tested and works perfectly.

Last edited by stevenmw (2014-11-06 16:27:56)

killkrt

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From: Italy

Registered: 2016-02-24

Posts: 35

Re: [Solved] AccountsService isn't working with LightDM

Sorry for the necro-posting, but I cannot find another post so closed to my issue.

I am experiencing the same problem with Lightdm, so despite I have already set my default session (deepin) almost everywhere (.dmrc, /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60-deepin.conf, /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf), it continues to default to cinnamon.
I have tried to set the permission to 755 to the folder:

/var/lib/AccountsService/users

But every time that I reboot it is set back to 700.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,736

Re: [Solved] AccountsService isn't working with LightDM

Please don't necrobump, open up your own thread with up to date information from your own system, and configurations shown from your own system.

Closing.