A while back autologin stopped working. I did Configure Desktop -> Startup and shutdown -> login screen -> advanced and clicked autologin, applied it, typed in root password and it does nothing.
I manually edited /etc/sddm.conf which is the file to edit according to the KDE docs
[Autologin]
Relogin=true
Session=plasma5.desktop
User=vilanye
Saved it and reboot, still no auto login and the username is gone from the file.
Is there a template somewhere I need to edit that overwrites sddm.conf on reboot?
sddm in openSUSE is patched to take the auto-login settings from /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, like all other displaymanagers btw.
So either change that file directly with a text editor (DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN=“username”), or use YaST->Security and Users->User and Group Management->Export Options->Login Settings.
Thanks, that seems to have worked.
Is there any point in me placing a bug report on the worthless autologin in desktop settings and the pointlessness of sddm.conf? Lots of dead functionality in 42.2 it seems.
No.
And sddm.conf is not pointless, just the autologin setting is ignored.
Lots of dead functionality in 42.2 it seems.
Just because the auto-login settings in KDE’s systemsettings does not work?
I wouldn’t call that “lots of dead functionality”…
It is not the first thing I have run into that does exactly nothing. Auto login from desktop settings should be removed.
And what other things have you run into that do exactly nothing?
Auto login from desktop settings should be removed.
Maybe.
But so far nobody spent the time to do it.
There are always more important things to do…
Nobody ever did it in KDE4 either.
But feel free to submit a patch on OBS if it bothers you that much. This is a community distribution after all. 