15th December 2016, 3:15
(14th December 2016, 10:57)rocky7x Wrote:(14th December 2016, 7:37)kdemeoz Wrote: Thanks AJ. I tried "The other option" first; it did not make any improvement upon logout/in [so i then deleted the file again from /usr/share/sddm/faces/].
Re your first suggestion [which ironically meant reverting to the file status i'd originally found therein prior to trying rocky's idea], after the chmoding i logged out, & finally then saw the avatars on the login screen. Did you notice my plural? In my VM i have more than one account, & they all now show the same avatar! Ha, oh well, it never rains but it pours, as the old saying goes.
Regarding avatars, maybe you forgot to remove the FacesDir parameter from the /etc/sddm.conf? So it takes the same avatar from you home dir for all users...?
Haha, you were spot-on; i had indeed forgotten to re-edit that file back to original [thanks]. Having done so now, i logged out of the VM & got... the same non-avatar login screen as was my status before i made my initial post in this thread [which isn't surprising, given the files' status are back to their original dispositions]. I think i'll give up on this [though i have been wondering if my /home being encrypted could be part of the problem? (presumably it does not get decrypted until i've logged in, in which case sddm presumably can't access the face files when needed at the login screen?)].