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If you want to interact as little as possible with the display manager, try using lightdm, it will also autologin and it's lighter than gdm.
That was my first choice alternative, but I had no success with any of the available LightDM greeters under Fedora 40 Kinoite (autologin, slick or gtk). They all resulted in a "Failed to start seat: seat0" error, even after ensuring
logind-check-graphical=true
was set. I may give it another go when I have the time.Oh I just installed lightdm in arch, disabled whatever I had, enables that service and activated the autologin by writing my username in some files I don't remember anymore. And that was it.
Due to some hardware issues I had I even had no service enabled and used to start it manually from a non GUI environment every time I logged on, and it worked fine. Now it's properly enabled though.