carta
profanity-avatar(1)

profanity-avatar1

Overview

Upload an avatar for yourself, disable your avatar, or download a contact's avatar (XEP-0084). If nothing happens after using this command, the user either doesn't have an avatar set or doesn't use XEP-0084 to publish it.

Arguments

set <path>

Set avatar to the image at <path>.

disable

Disable avatar publishing; your avatar will not display to others.

get <barejid>

Download the avatar. barejid is the JID to download avatar from.

open <barejid>

Download avatar and open it with command. See /executable.

Examples

/avatar set ~/images/avatar.png

/avatar disable

/avatar get [email protected]

/avatar open [email protected]

History

  • Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
  • Debian 13 (Trixie)
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm)
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye)

From profanity 1:0.19.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Also shipped by profanity-gtk. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.