No permission to change User Avatar?

Issues & Assistance
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Trying to change my User Avatar from System Settings. I am able to go the whole way through picking one of the presets or from a file, but Apply is greyed out, and if I hit OK I get a red banner at the top of the window saying: Could not get permission to save user ******(<---me)

What have I done to try to fix this?

  • 3 giant mugs of coffee
  • 2 hours of changing my search terms to see if I'm just not wording it properly
  • preparing to face palm when given a simple solution that I hadn't thought of

Any help would be appreciated. This isn't a matter of life and death for my install of Garuda, I'd just rather see something other than a big ol' S when I login....

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Post the image, I should be able to change it for you.

Welcome to Garuda.

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sorry, to be clearer, on my desktop, NOT the forum.

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Where is the graphics file located?

Try placing it in ~/Pictures.

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Trying that now. Though it gives the same results with the preset options

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What format is the image?

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Yeah.... no dice

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i've tried jpg and png

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Perhaps it is too large.

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the file i wanted to use is 2.2m, just for sh!ts and giggles i tried one that was 750kb, and i've cropped the image 6 ways from sunday. this really does appear to be a permissions issue

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Can you change to any preexisting system image?

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nope, i've tried all the different preset images

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Don't know what to say, it's working for me. :man_shrugging:

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:man_facepalming: :man_facepalming: :man_facepalming: :man_facepalming: :man_facepalming: :man_facepalming:

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Reset ownership to your own user on your home directory:

sudo chown $USER:$USER ~ -R
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trying that now. thanks for sticking with it and helping me troubleshoot

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weird.....

╰─λ sudo chown $sturg:$sturg ~ -R
[sudo] password for sturg:
chown: missing operand after ‘/home/sturg’
Try 'chown --help' for more information.

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sudo chown sturg:sturg ~ -R
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yeah......here comes another facepalm moment

no change

i'm also out of daily replies for a new user. i'll try to search more, and come at this tomorrow after work..

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Maybe try
sudo chown -R $USER: $HOME

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