When installing 11.2, I chose not to enable auto-login during the install process. I have now tried to enable it through the System Settings menu, but the changes do not take effect. I’ve checked and rechecked and restarted numerous times, but still auto-login will not enable. I’ve also tried changing the login splash screen, but upon reboot, nothing has changed.
Anyone have any ideas?
Hmmm mabe kdm or gdm did not install. Which desktop?
With KDE you use kdm to log in
With Gnome you use gdm.
Check in Yast-Sofware-Software Management and see if the correct one is installed for your desktop. If no install it. If it is already installed we need to check else where.
zorbus wrote:
> Anyone have any ideas?
1st idea is: you should always say what desktop environment you are
using (the answer for Gnome, KDE and (i guess) XFCE or any of the
other DOZEN desktop environments may be very different)…you could
put that kind of info in your standard sig block, and it would always
be available…
2nd: maybe this will work, maybe not…
find “Personal Settings” or “Configure Desktop” or something like that
in the menu…when you open it should have selections like “Appearance
and Themes”, “Desktop”, and several others including “System
Administration” (or somthing like that)…
click the system admin…
now you should (may?) have several Tabs to choose from, “Appearance”,
“Font” to “Convenience” and others…
click on “Convenience”…now CAREFUL don’t get creative here or you
might blow the machine!
most stuff there should be grayed out (you are not logging into Gnome
or KDE as root, are you???) and at the bottom click on “Administrator
Mode” and give the root password when asked…
the Login Manager should no longer be grayed out…
see “Enable Auto-Login” ?? click the little box to put an X in it
see “User:” flip the name there to your user name (if not already)
see “Delay:” i recommend you set that to five or ten seconds…because
eventually you WILL want to stop the auto-login, maybe to pick a
different user, or a different desktop environment, etc…and, if you
set it to zero then you have a little problem (not a big problem, but
a little problem)
then click “Apply” and then “ok”…if you did everything right it
should on next boot pause a few seconds (8, 10, or whatever you set)
then boot up to your desktop, hands off…
DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE on that page unless you have read ALL of
the help file AND developed a fool proof plan on how to UNdo what ever
you do (without asking me)
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palladium
Thanks for your replies guys.
I tried changing the settings via the Login Manager before making my first post, but without success. In previous versions of opensuse, changing the settings under the ‘convenience’ tab worked, but not in 11.2.
I’ll google for advice on how to change settings via the cli
cheers
kdm, kde4 opensuse 11.2
zorbus wrote:
> In previous versions of opensuse, changing the settings under the
> ‘convenience’ tab worked, but not in 11.2.
in that case, my opinion is that your 11.2 is BROKEN…because it
absolutely does work fine in hundreds of thousands of other folks 11.2…
> I’ll google for advice on how to change settings via the cli
i guess it would be better to fix whatever is broken in your
system…but, i would have no idea where to begin, maybe here:
-did you md5sum check the iso prior to burning the install media?
-did you do this before install? http://tinyurl.com/yajm2aq
-have you tried inserting the DVD, and at the first boot screen (as
seen in the just above URL) select and run “Repair Installed System”
(while connected to the internet)?
i guess if you want to delve into the guts you might find a section on
auto-login, with the word enable in a file kinda like
/etc/gdm/custom.conf <if you are using Gnome (you didn’t say)
if you are using KDE, i don’t know where kdm hides such…but it is
probably covered in a kde.org document…
though, openSUSE may or may not conform with the the default…
-good luck- and let us know what you find and how it works out…
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palladium
IMO better not using auto-login, switch it off.
Boot to yast via level 3
Then you should at least get to the console and that will give you some indication on the problem.
[QUOTE]in that case, my opinion is that your 11.2 is BROKEN…because it
absolutely does work fine in hundreds of thousands of other folks 11.2…/QUOTE]
Have hundreds of thousands of other users tried changing the login settings? I’d be curious to know.
In agreement with what you say, it is quite possible that my install is slightly broken. I’ve been using opensuse since 10.2, and there have always been minor issues, but linux with minor bugs are still superior to that other OS… The fact that 99% of things work ‘out of the box’ is very impressive.
[QUOTE]-did you md5sum check the iso prior to burning the install media?/QUOTE]
Always, and always burn at 2x maximum.
[QUOTE]/etc/gdm/custom.conf <if you are using Gnome (you didn’t say)/QUOTE]
KDE/kdm, it’s at the bottom of my last post 
I’ll leave auto-login off, as caf4926 advises. He is absolutely right, I was just getting lazy.
A very (late) happy new year to all!
Using opensuse, playing with suse studio, building Arch :\
I have changed the auto-login both ways just did it in KDE personal settings-Advanced-Login settings. But I did a clean install. If you do an upgrade you are always in danger of having incorrect configuration settings left behind some where. 11.2 is a pretty big change even if from 11.1. IMHO you should treat a new OS just like if it was a new machine. Bite the bullet and configure the desktop a new.