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How to change the background (photo) and avatar in SDDM ?

Hello, everyone.

Since lightdm-openrc  does not work for me, possibly due to nvidia drivers, I decided to try sddm-openrc.

Please tell me how to change the background (photo) that is set by default after installing sddm? I looked at the Arch Linux wiki, but it didn't work... https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM

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/usr/share/sddm/themes/name/theme.conf.user

[General]
background=/path/to/background.png


As for changing the avatar, I figured it out, it works, here are my steps, maybe it will be useful to someone.

1. Downloaded an avatar in jpg or png format, for example  test.jpg

2. Renamed test.jpg to tom.face.icon   # tom is your username
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 $ whoami

3. Move tom.face.icon to the /usr/share/sddm/faces/ directory

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$ sudo mv tom.face.icon /usr/share/sddm/faces/






Re: How to change the background (photo) and avatar in SDDM ?

Reply #2 –
Quote from: Shoun2137 – on
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#User_icon_(avatar)
Use ~/.face.icon path instead, no need to pollute /usr/*

Thank you for your answer. As for changing the avatar as I wrote above, I did it, I can't figure out how to change the background.

As for what you wrote
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/etc/sddm.conf.d/avatar.conf
there is no such file and directory, you can check for yourself))
I'm using   XFCE4 and  sddm-openrc
 

Re: How to change the background (photo) and avatar in SDDM ?

Reply #3 –
Quote from: Shoun2137 – on
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#User_icon_(avatar)
Use ~/.face.icon path instead, no need to pollute /usr/*

I figured out what the problem was. It was my mistake, I didn't install one package and didn't install the avatar and background manager display from the right place.

I mean lightdm-openrc.

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It is recommended to place the PNG or JPG file in /usr/share/pixmaps since the LightDM user needs read access to the wallpaper file.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LightDM