Mugshot

Mugshot is a lightweight user configuration utility for Linux designed for simplicity and ease of use. Quickly update your personal profile and sync your updates across applications.

Features

• Update your user profile image (~/.face and AccountService)
• Update user details stored in /etc/passwd (used by finger and other desktop applications)
• (Optionally) sync your profile image to your Pidgin buddy icon
• (Optionally) sync your user details to LibreOffice

Dependencies

Build Requirements

• gir1.2-gtk-3.0
• python3
• python3-distutils
• python3-distutils-extra
• python3-gi
• python3-pexpect

Runtime Requirements

• chfn
• python3-cairo
• python3-gi
• python3-pexpect

Optional (for webcam support)

• gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
• gstreamer1.0-tools
• gir1.2-cheese-3.0
• gir1.2-gtkclutter-1.0

Installation

Please refer to the Mugshot Wiki for installation instructions.

Links

• Homepage
• Releases
• Bug Reports
• Translations
• Wiki

Troubleshooting

If you see the following error:

(mugshot:22748): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.bluesabre.mugshot' is not installed

Be sure to copy data/glib-2.0/schemas/org.bluesabre.mugshot.gschema.xml to either:

• /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas, or
• /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas

and run glib-compile-schemas on that directory before running Mugshot.