Change User Profile Photo in UBUNTU 14.04

Question

Today, I installed the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit. And I open the cheese webcam booth, the webcam works fine. I want to change the user photo in profile, webcam not works. I also try "browse for more picture" and select a photo. But its hangs...

Note: Dafault image selection works fine

Change User Photo

Cornelius · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-20T13:45:36.710

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I got the same problem. User Accounts doesn't seem to detect webcam.

Use Cheese, take a photo of yourself, save it as a file and then add it to your account.

If that doesn't work change your user account photo without using Gnome Control Center ( as seen here) by running in terminal:

sudo gedit /var/lib/AccountsService/users/<replace_with_your_name>

and change the Icon setting under User with the path to a 96 by 96 pixel jpg file. Then Log out and in. Your name lowercase as the user folder in /home (tamil in your case)

edited Apr 20 '14 at 13:45

answered Apr 20 '14 at 13:11

Cornelius

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The browse a image also hangs the system. – Tamil Selvan C Apr 20 '14 at 13:18
In my case works with PNG and JPG, and even allows me to cut JPG. I'm using Ubuntu 14.04. Do a reboot and try again. – Cornelius Apr 20 '14 at 13:20
I try to reboot a system also, not yet succeed – Tamil Selvan C Apr 20 '14 at 13:24
How it hangs the system? Can you provide more details? – Cornelius Apr 20 '14 at 13:27
When i click "browse a more images", it open file manager and select an image which already taken by cheese web cam. system hanged/freezed, (no keyboard and mouse functionality works, i restart the system by clicking the pc button, no way to click shutdown button – Tamil Selvan C Apr 20 '14 at 13:30
As this post suggests try running gnome-control-center as root. If it doesn't work reinstall it with sudo apt-get -f install --reinstall gnome-control-center – Cornelius Apr 20 '14 at 13:34
Thanks a lots. sudo gedit /var/lib/AccountsService/users/<replace_with_your_name> cmd works fine...I learned place image in Picture folder and browse it, it work fine... – Tamil Selvan C Apr 24 '14 at 05:46

Change User Profile Photo in UBUNTU 14.04

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