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A user profile is a visual display of personal data associated with a specific user, or a customized desktop environment. A profile refers therefore to the explicit digital representation of a person's identity. A user profile can also be considered as the computer representation of a user model.

A profile can be used to store the description of the characteristics of person. This information can be exploited by systems taking into account the persons' characteristics and preferences.

Profiling is the process that refers to construction of a profile via the extraction from a set of data.

User profiles can be found on operating systems, computer programs, recommender systems, or dynamic websites (such as online social networking sites or bulletin boards).

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The About Me dialog doesn't save information

I just installed a fresh copy of 11.04 and have been setting up my preferences. I have noticed while doing this that the About Me dialog does not save anything that I put in. I can totally fill the dialog out, close it, and when I reopen it, it is…
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Change default location of document folder of user

I am using Ubuntu desktop. I want to change default location of document folder of my user (let's take testuser) from local system (/home/testuser/Documents/) to window share (\server1\share_name) mounted on /mount/win_share_name/. Can I do it? If…
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How to change profile picture in User Accounts

I can't somehow not change the profile picture in User Accounts. After I browse for a photo and select one, nothing happens! Rebooting doesn't fix the problem. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. How can I fix this problem and change my picture? for the…
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Changed profiles; lost Ubuntu; how do I get it back?

Installed Ubuntu-secure-remix 12.10 in a dual boot with Windows 8 on an HP laptop. A first-time Linux user, I was exploring settings when I changed profiles (not sure what I changed it to). Now the Linux boots into what I believe is the shell. I can…
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Where did the user icons go?

I've just upgraded to xenial xerus. There's no ~/.local/share/icons... do I have to create it? Does it live somewhere else? It ain't there and searches turn up nothing. I keep bookmarks to these places so I can easily create my own *.desktop files.
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Profile picture, whats the point, whats it used for?

So I noticed I set a profile picture in Ubuntu. There seems to be no point of it other than an extremely small icon about 4px by 4px when clicking at the top right. Its not like it shows up at the login like in windows either. So is there some…
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i accidentally disabled my ubuntu profile

I was trying to upgrade my 2nd computer's hard drive, and in the process, I un-admin'd and disabled my account. I'm using the guest account right now. I've tried everything that ask ubuntu has to offer (or at least after 5 hours of searching,…
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Can't set user picture in Xubuntu 22.04

Apparently, using .face doesn't work anymore. I've also tried setting it through About me and through LightDM. Neither works, either. The picture silhouette still shows on the log-in screen. I also get an error message in LightDM. Any thoughts on…
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How can I permanently change PATH variable in Ubuntu 20.04?

How can I permanently change PATH variable in Ubuntu 20.04? What file should I modify? Thank You
Pedro Rodríguez Cervera
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