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SDDM Configuration

PostPosted: Nov 5th, '17, 14:12
by dglent
I had problems with the autologin since the update to mageia 6.

Firstly, i was trying to set it in the mcc Startup section.
The problem was that every time the option of autologin was unchecked!
I installed also the lxdm manager. Then the option stayed checked but no autologin with sddm (worked with lxdm)

I've found this application:
https://github.com/hagabaka/sddm-config-editor
which helped me to fix this.
I don't know exactly the setting that has make the autlogin to work, i remember that in the autologin section the line: "Name for session file for autologin session" was empty.

Now i have this sddm/conf:
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# Generated by SDDM Configuration Editor
[Autologin]
Relogin=true
Session=/usr/share/xsessions/lxqt.desktop
User=dglent

[Theme]
Current=mga-coffee
CursorTheme=whiteglass
FacesDir=/usr/share/sddm/faces

[Users]
MaximumUid=65000
MinimumUid=500
RememberLastSession=true
RememberLastUser=true


I remarked than now the Session section has the full path.

However, now it works, here is the package i used in order to install the application:
http://www.mageia-gr.org/rpm/6/x86_64/s ... x86_64.rpm

Re: SDDM Configuration

PostPosted: Nov 5th, '17, 16:01
by doktor5000
dglent wrote:Firstly, i was trying to set it in the mcc Startup section.
The problem was that every time the option of autologin was unchecked!


Well, this should have been fixed and seems to work for others, see e.g. https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17913

Also not sure if it really needs an app to just change a bunch of lines in a text file? But if it works for you ...