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mrpinkolik

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Registered: 2023-01-21

Posts: 23

[LightDM] LightDM doesn't display my .face and background image

Hello everyone!

I want to customize my LightDM look by setting my own .face img and a background image. However none of them are shown, I only get a black screen for background, and the default image instead of .face.
But when I try to run

lightdm --test-mode --debug

everything looks as it should.
I checked rights for the images, and both have -rw-r--r--, so I guess it should work, but it doesn't.

I will appreciate any help, thank you in advance!

Ferdinand

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From: Norway

Registered: 2020-01-02

Posts: 338

Re: [LightDM] LightDM doesn't display my .face and background image

Is your home directory also accessible for lighdm (ie. "r-x" for others)?

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mrpinkolik

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Registered: 2023-01-21

Posts: 23

Re: [LightDM] LightDM doesn't display my .face and background image

Is your home directory also accessible for lighdm (ie. "r-x" for others)?

Hello. No it is not accessible for others, it has following rights 700. But for another user who also has 700 permissions on their home folder, everything works

Ferdinand

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From: Norway

Registered: 2020-01-02

Posts: 338

Re: [LightDM] LightDM doesn't display my .face and background image

Hm.. it looks like the accountsservice package must be installed as well.
Take a look here if you haven't already:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LightD … our_avatar

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mrpinkolik

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Registered: 2023-01-21

Posts: 23

Re: [LightDM] LightDM doesn't display my .face and background image

Hm.. it looks like the accountsservice package must be installed as well.
Take a look here if you haven't already:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LightD … our_avatar

Yes, I have this package installed. And as I already said it works for another user but doesn't work for my user for some reason