Changing User Profile Picture and Spacing Icons

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Hi folks, I’m a bit of a newbie moving to linux since the debacle that is windows 10 being foisted on fed up users. Really enjoying Ubuntu Mate and having Steam for gaming is really nice too. I hope the Vulkan API takes off soon too! Anyway, I’ve got a couple of wee questions, please be gentle! :slight_smile:

  1. I would simply like to change the login profile picture. I searched for how to do this before asking and found a post explaining its “control centre >> about me >> click on picture >> choose one” I did this, and sure enough I can choose a new picture, which I did. But when I restart, the picture I chose is not displayed, it’s still just the default blank face. What gives? Am I making a daft newbie mistake?

  2. I’m getting used to panels, how they work, and how you can layout program icons on them. What I’m not used to is that there doesn’t seem to be any way to auto space icons on them. So I have to manually go in and carefully try to get them as evenly spaced as possible. Is there any option to quickly auto space them to look as even as possible?

Many thanks for any help offered, and I hope this helps out other newbies too! :slight_smile:

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The image on the login screen should be set using the lightdm greeter settings

System -> Administration -> LightDM GTK+ Greeter settings

About your point #2 I submitted a somewhat related feature request to the mate-panel repo on github a while back.
Maybe you can do the same if you can describe clearly the feature you’d like.

Cheers