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LinG

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[SOLVED] Blurry SDDM avatar

All sddm avatars are blurry, if I copy a picture to /usr/share/sddm/faces/ and named it as the wiki suggests the image (of my avatar) stays blurry while the background that I applied is nice and crisp.

(On a side note, usually the variables that need to be adjusted by the user are italic on the wiki, but the word "username" in this line on the wiki "You can simply put a png image named username.face.icon into the default directory"  in the subsection "changing your avatar" is not.)

EDIT: The problem got solved in the latest SDDM update (for me)

Last edited by LinG (2017-09-06 13:53:11)

dockland

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Re: [SOLVED] Blurry SDDM avatar

Blurry as "out of focus", or just a blurry mess?
Size of your png, and screen resolution perhaps?

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LinG

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Re: [SOLVED] Blurry SDDM avatar

out of focus

(The blurry mess with all kinds of weird colors (mostly yellow ish) happens when I close and re-open my laptop lid but that was reported in the KDE bug report I think, something to do with nvidia if I remember correctly...)

dockland

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Re: [SOLVED] Blurry SDDM avatar

Try 80*80px, 100*100px, 125*125px and so on, to se it's not a resolution issue.

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LinG

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Re: [SOLVED] Blurry SDDM avatar

I tried a few now, but they all pretty much give the same blurry result... (I had the same problem when I was still using ubuntu...)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Blurry SDDM avatar

The stock icons are 256x256, so I'd suggest you try with an icon of that exact size and compare the result with the sizes you tried so far.

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LinG

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Re: [SOLVED] Blurry SDDM avatar

Same results, also the default icon is blurred if I don't have a *username*.face.icon at all.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Blurry SDDM avatar

You're aware that your OP is kinda misleading? Please fix it to clarify that this is not related to a custom image at all.

Which sddm theme do you use and does this happen with others as well?

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LinG

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Re: [SOLVED] Blurry SDDM avatar

I was unaware, my apologies. The default breeze theme, I just tried the "Urban Lifestyle" theme from the AUR, which is also blurry but I believe a bit less blurry compared to the breeze theme (but small differences in "blurriness" are hard to tell...) (The profile picture image is also larger in the "Urban Lifestyle" theme).

Last edited by LinG (2017-07-29 15:09:37)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Blurry SDDM avatar

Please make a screenshot to illustrate what you see. Also it allows you to count pixels to create a pre-sized avatar image.
(you can use scrot or xwd from another VT or ssh login, where the former will require a delayed invocation so that you can switch to the SDDM VT before the screenshot is taken)

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