linux-gravatar

Set your Linux profile picture using gravatar

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Set your Linux profile picture using gravatar.

Supports Python 2.7+ and Python 3

N.B Only Ubuntu 20.04, happy for people to try on other Distro and report back.

Ubuntu: (Python 2 only):

apt-get install python-glade2 python-appindicator

Clone git repo:

git clone https://github.com/jrosco/linux-gravatar.git

Change directory and run setup:

cd linux-gravatar; sudo python setup.py install

Run application:

/usr/local/bin/linux-gravatar

OR search in your start menu (Should be under category “Other”)

Setup your settings:

Click on the linux-gravatar in your trayicon (example shown above)
Enter your Gravatar username (not required). Only used to open your profile from the drop-down menu”
Enter your email address used to grab the avatar and set the check time (number of minutes between scans)
Select Apply

The settings file can be found in your home directory

~/.gravatar_settings.cfg

Name	Description	Default
username	Your Gravatar username (not required). Only used to open your profile from drop-down menu”	Null
email	The email address used to download your avatar	Null
check	The amount of time in seconds to scrape the gravatar url for your avatar	60.0
notifications	Toggle between showing or not showing notification messages in the system tray	True
startup	Not currently used	False

Please report any issues or request here