personalize your device, login avatar
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Hello all.
Two problems, that may be related-
At setup time you are asked to "personalize your device" which at least for me implies that you set the host name. However it sets the name that is shown on the login screen. This, again at least for me implies the users name was changed in this process. However again, this is not true.
In fact, the only result of "personalize your device" seems to be setting the name displayed next to the password field on login screen. Every other place where the users name is needed seems to referr to user "phablet". -
On my ubuntu desktop, I am used to see my avatar picture on the login sreen.
The avatar can be set by adding a picture to /home/<user>/.face
This is managed by /var/lib/AccountsService/users/
A similar structure is available on UT. However setting /home/phablet/.face has no effect, regardless whether "personalize your device" is set to "phablet" or anything else.
What is going on here? Why does ubports not referr to well known structures for such basic things like host name, user name, interface configuration?
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@derbaertigefrytz It's as simple as this: Ubuntu Touch is not Ubuntu. You can't expect UT to stick to Ubuntu Desktop conventions; it's a phone.
PCs are much more intended for shared usage, so it makes sense to make the users easier to tell apart. It's not so common to share a phone. I suspect that's the reason why not much time was spent on this kind of personalization.
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@Moem Oh, thank you for your suspect.
I think, I will wait a while. May be, there is a for a more fact based answer ahead.
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@derbaertigefrytz Moem's reply was fact based. AFAIK UT only has one user - phablet, there is no option to create other users so no need for personalized avatars etc. It may be added at some stage if there is enough demand but it has been this way for many years.
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@Ian said in personalize your device, login avatar:
UT only has one user - phablet,
wonder if anyone has tried adduser on a UT system (taking care of using --extrausers of course)
As I have just installed UT I'm not keen on breaking it immediately
