When our PC is shared by several people, it may be a good idea use a different image for each user. Well, in this article we want to show you how we can change the avatar of our Ubuntu in a way that works in Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu and ultimately any Ubuntu-based distro.
As always, we will show you several ways to accomplish this task. One of them will be graphically and the other, through the terminal. Anyway, both procedures are very simple and fast. We teach you step by step.
As we have just mentioned, we can do it in two different ways. One through own configuration of our Ubuntu, which will vary slightly depending on the distro we are using, and the other to through terminal (or also graphically if you want) that will work "universally" for any Ubuntu-based distro.
1.- Through the system configuration
If we are on Ubuntu with GNOME, we can go to the System configuration, and then we have to click on the section Users. Once inside, we have to click on the image that appears by default, as we see in the following image:
Once we click, we can choose between a series of images that Ubuntu provides us, or on the other hand we can select the one we want from our file system.
As we have mentioned, this procedure may vary depending on the distro you use, since obviously the configuration options do not have the same name in each of the distros.
2.- Through the terminal
This procedure is just as easy and we can also do it graphically, but we have decided to do it through the terminal. And is that the profile image is saved through a hidden file, LLAMADA .face, in our personal folder.
The first step is identify the image we want to become an avatar and rename it. Once changed, we have to move the image with name .face to our personal folder. We can do it all at once by executing the following command:
mv ./imagen.jpg ~ / .face
Thus, in addition to moving the image we have chosen (image.jpg) to our personal folder, we will also change the name to .face.
Through either of these two procedures, we should already have our profile image successfully changed. Has the article helped you? We hope so!