Changing KDE user avatar

Question

I'm trying to change my user avatar but I can't find the Password & User Account.

In my System Settings → Common Appearance and Behavior → Account Details there are only 2 elements, Paths and Social Desktop.

What package do I need to install? I've installed KDE-Base only on my Arch Linux.

Solution 1

The missing package was kdepasswd

Solution 2

In KDE 5 (Plasma), the user avatar is stored in the user's home directory:

~/.face.icon

If you are using SDDM as your login-manager, you can also store icons in:

/usr/share/sddm/faces

Solution 3

To change the avatar of the User Switcher plasmoid copy a 256x256, PNG file to ~/.face.icon UserSwitch.plasmoid Sample

Comments

[Johannes H.]

My Kubuntu shows I have kuser and manage-users installed (and, of course, much more - but those look to me like they could be a match). Not sure how those packages are called in arch though...

[Gigitsu]

I've installed kdeadmin-kuser but the section is still missing :( Can't find manage-user...I'll google for it

[Gigitsu]

Found it! kdepasswd

[Johannes H.]

You might want to answer your own question, for future reference.

[Simon Melhuish]

kdepasswd in KDE 5 only changes the password and does not let you change the avatar.

[user744403]

What file-format should .face.icon have? From the extension I would guess it should be a .ico (application/x-icon) file? But that seems venerable and unlikely.

[Trevor]

@exhuma I do not know all possible supported formats, but mine is: $ file ~/.face.icon ~/.face.icon: PNG image data, 533 x 400, 8-bit colormap, non-interlaced