profanity-avatar(1)

profanity-avatar1

Usage

/avatar set <path>

/avatar disable

/avatar get <barejid>

/avatar open <barejid>

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]

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

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.