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I must be lucky, works just fine for me with SDDM configured for Wayland only, autologin to a Wayland session.
Mind sharing what your distro and version are? The problem seems to be present on Fedora and OpenSUSE mostly, from what I can see of the issues posted online.
As far as I can tell, sddm.conf is the legacy conf location and the more recent SDDM/KDE versions are now placing the settings in /etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf...not that that itself should matter much here.
I am using Fedora 40 Kinoite with autologin on SDDM, no trouble and never had.
Interesting. I followed the documentation from the various distros (Arch, Debian, and openSUSE), and added the following to
/etc/sddm.conf.d/10-autologin.conf
:I've confirmed that plasma.desktop exists in
/usr/share/wayland-sessions/
and it's the session I normally select regardless of DM used.I've also tried placing the autologin text in
/etc/sddm.conf
,/etc/sddm.conf.d/autologin
, and the default/etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf
. No matter where it's saved, the settings are ignored and I'm brought right back to the greeter upon reboot. Nothing is logged in journald and SDDM doesn't write to its own log in/var/log
.I've also tried the above with and without the KDE Wallet service enabled (I normally keep it disabled).
If I use the System Settings GUI to set the above details (via Colors & Themes > Login Screen (SDDM) > Behavior), the System Settings app crashes upon close. I've had multiple updates since rebasing to Kinoite, so the chance of a corrupted package is nil.
Something is definitely afoot.
Arch. That leads me to believe it's possibly a configuration issue. Mine is pretty barebones, it's literally just that one file.
AFAIK the ones in sddm.conf.d are for useful because the GUI can focus on just one file without nuking other user's configurations. But they all get loaded so it shouldn't matter.
The linked bug report seems to blame PAM modules, kwallet in particular which I don't think I've got configured for unlock at login since there's no password to that account in the first place.
Thanks for the info. I don't enable the Kwallet service at all either, so I don't think that would be it, but who knows. At any rate, I rechecked my config and even moved the settings to
/etc/sddm.conf
without success. It seems I'm not alone at least, so I'll just stick with GDM until I can troubleshoot further.Same here. No trouble with sddm.