Adw.Avatar
Description: Reference for Adw.Avatar

### Class

# AdwAvatar

since: 1.0

#### Description [src]

    final class Adw.Avatar : Gtk.Widget {
      /* No available fields */
    }

A widget displaying an image, with a generated fallback.

`AdwAvatar` is a widget that shows a round avatar.

`AdwAvatar` generates an avatar with the initials of the `AdwAvatar:text` on top of a colored background.

The color is picked based on the hash of the `AdwAvatar:text`.

If `AdwAvatar:show-initials` is set to `FALSE`, `AdwAvatar:icon-name` or `avatar-default-symbolic` is shown instead of the initials.

Use `AdwAvatar:custom-image` to set a custom image.

## CSS nodes

`AdwAvatar` has a single CSS node with name `avatar`.

Available since: 1.0

#### Hierarchy

#### Ancestors

- GtkWidget
- GInitiallyUnowned
- GObject

#### Implements

- GtkAccessible
- GtkBuildable
- GtkConstraintTarget

#### Constructors

###### adw_avatar_new

Creates a new `AdwAvatar`.

since: 1.0

#### Instance methods

###### adw_avatar_draw_to_texture

Renders `self` into a `GdkTexture` at `scale_factor`.

since: 1.0

###### adw_avatar_get_custom_image

Gets the custom image paintable.

since: 1.0

###### adw_avatar_get_icon_name

Gets the name of an icon to use as a fallback.

since: 1.0

###### adw_avatar_get_show_initials

Gets whether initials are used instead of an icon on the fallback avatar.

since: 1.0

###### adw_avatar_get_size

Gets the size of the avatar.

since: 1.0

###### adw_avatar_get_text

Gets the text used to generate the fallback initials and color.

since: 1.0

###### adw_avatar_set_custom_image

Sets the custom image paintable.

since: 1.0

###### adw_avatar_set_icon_name

Sets the name of an icon to use as a fallback.

since: 1.0

###### adw_avatar_set_show_initials

Sets whether to use initials instead of an icon on the fallback avatar.

since: 1.0

###### adw_avatar_set_size

Sets the size of the avatar.

since: 1.0

###### adw_avatar_set_text

Sets the text used to generate the fallback initials and color.

since: 1.0

##### Methods inherited from GtkWidget (160)

Please see GtkWidget for a full list of methods.

##### Methods inherited from GObject (43)

Please see GObject for a full list of methods.

##### Methods inherited from GtkAccessible (10)

###### gtk_accessible_get_accessible_role

Retrieves the `GtkAccessibleRole` for the given `GtkAccessible`.

###### gtk_accessible_reset_property

Resets the accessible `property` to its default value.

###### gtk_accessible_reset_relation

Resets the accessible `relation` to its default value.

###### gtk_accessible_reset_state

Resets the accessible `state` to its default value.

###### gtk_accessible_update_property

Updates a list of accessible properties.

###### gtk_accessible_update_property_value

Updates an array of accessible properties.

###### gtk_accessible_update_relation

Updates a list of accessible relations.

###### gtk_accessible_update_relation_value

Updates an array of accessible relations.

###### gtk_accessible_update_state

Updates a list of accessible states. See the `GtkAccessibleState` documentation for the value types of accessible states.

###### gtk_accessible_update_state_value

Updates an array of accessible states.

##### Methods inherited from GtkBuildable (1)

###### gtk_buildable_get_buildable_id

Gets the ID of the `buildable` object.

#### Properties

###### Adw.Avatar:custom-image

A custom image paintable.

since: 1.0

###### Adw.Avatar:icon-name

The name of an icon to use as a fallback.

since: 1.0

###### Adw.Avatar:show-initials

Whether initials are used instead of an icon on the fallback avatar.

since: 1.0

###### Adw.Avatar:size

The size of the avatar.

since: 1.0

###### Adw.Avatar:text

Sets the text used to generate the fallback initials and color.

since: 1.0

##### Properties inherited from GtkWidget (34)

###### Gtk.Widget:can-focus

Whether the widget or any of its descendents can accept the input focus.

###### Gtk.Widget:can-target

Whether the widget can receive pointer events.

###### Gtk.Widget:css-classes

A list of css classes applied to this widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:css-name

The name of this widget in the CSS tree.

###### Gtk.Widget:cursor

The cursor used by `widget`.

###### Gtk.Widget:focus-on-click

Whether the widget should grab focus when it is clicked with the mouse.

###### Gtk.Widget:focusable

Whether this widget itself will accept the input focus.

###### Gtk.Widget:halign

How to distribute horizontal space if widget gets extra space.

###### Gtk.Widget:has-default

Whether the widget is the default widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:has-focus

Whether the widget has the input focus.

###### Gtk.Widget:has-tooltip

Enables or disables the emission of the ::query-tooltip signal on `widget`.

###### Gtk.Widget:height-request

Override for height request of the widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:hexpand

Whether to expand horizontally.

###### Gtk.Widget:hexpand-set

Whether to use the `hexpand` property.

###### Gtk.Widget:layout-manager

The `GtkLayoutManager` instance to use to compute the preferred size of the widget, and allocate its children.

###### Gtk.Widget:margin-bottom

Margin on bottom side of widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:margin-end

Margin on end of widget, horizontally.

###### Gtk.Widget:margin-start

Margin on start of widget, horizontally.

###### Gtk.Widget:margin-top

Margin on top side of widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:name

The name of the widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:opacity

The requested opacity of the widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:overflow

How content outside the widget’s content area is treated.

###### Gtk.Widget:parent

The parent widget of this widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:receives-default

Whether the widget will receive the default action when it is focused.

###### Gtk.Widget:root

The `GtkRoot` widget of the widget tree containing this widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:scale-factor

The scale factor of the widget.

###### Gtk.Widget:sensitive

Whether the widget responds to input.

###### Gtk.Widget:tooltip-markup

Sets the text of tooltip to be the given string, which is marked up with Pango markup.

###### Gtk.Widget:tooltip-text

Sets the text of tooltip to be the given string.

###### Gtk.Widget:valign

How to distribute vertical space if widget gets extra space.

###### Gtk.Widget:vexpand

Whether to expand vertically.

###### Gtk.Widget:vexpand-set

Whether to use the `vexpand` property.

###### Gtk.Widget:visible

Whether the widget is visible.

###### Gtk.Widget:width-request

Override for width request of the widget.

##### Properties inherited from GtkAccessible (1)

###### Gtk-4.0.Accessible:accessible-role

The accessible role of the given `GtkAccessible` implementation.

#### Signals

##### Signals inherited from GtkWidget (13)

###### GtkWidget::destroy

Signals that all holders of a reference to the widget should release the reference that they hold.

###### GtkWidget::direction-changed

Emitted when the text direction of a widget changes.

###### GtkWidget::hide

Emitted when `widget` is hidden.

###### GtkWidget::keynav-failed

Emitted if keyboard navigation fails.

###### GtkWidget::map

Emitted when `widget` is going to be mapped.

###### GtkWidget::mnemonic-activate

Emitted when a widget is activated via a mnemonic.

###### GtkWidget::move-focus

Emitted when the focus is moved.

###### GtkWidget::query-tooltip

Emitted when the widgets tooltip is about to be shown.

###### GtkWidget::realize

Emitted when `widget` is associated with a `GdkSurface`.

###### GtkWidget::show

Emitted when `widget` is shown.

###### GtkWidget::state-flags-changed

Emitted when the widget state changes.

###### GtkWidget::unmap

Emitted when `widget` is going to be unmapped.

###### GtkWidget::unrealize

Emitted when the `GdkSurface` associated with `widget` is destroyed.

##### Signals inherited from GObject (1)

###### GObject::notify

The notify signal is emitted on an object when one of its properties has its value set through g_object_set_property(), g_object_set(), et al.

#### Class structure

    struct AdwAvatarClass {
      GtkWidgetClass parent_class;

    }

No description available.

###### Class members

`parent_class: GtkWidgetClass`
  No description available.