Autologin not working with Wayland

Desktop Environments Plasma
1

I’ve switched over from X11 and I’ve always used “autologin”. since I’ve switched to wayland I no longer can “autologin”. in 'Settings - startupand shutdown - SDDM login > Behavior I’ve made sure autologin is selected with wayland. I’ve also checked my /etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings_conf file and it is being written in correctly. After booting it just takes me to the SDDM login session screen where I have to manually login. I’m wondering if this is a bug.

kde_settings_conf:

cat /etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf
[Autologin]
Relogin=false
Session=
User=

[General]
HaltCommand=/usr/bin/systemctl poweroff
RebootCommand=/usr/bin/systemctl reboot

[Theme]
Current=Fluent-round

[Users]
MaximumUid=60000
MinimumUid=1000

2

I just consulted ArchWiki:

Autologin

SDDM supports automatic login through its configuration file, for example:

/etc/sddm.conf.d/autologin.conf

[Autologin]
User=john
Session=plasma

Your User= and Session= are empty. I guess you would need to fill in with your username and the name of the session.

:eye: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#Autologin

3

Isn’t this the problem? You need to specify the session type and your user name to autologin. You have to add those values in.

cat /etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf
[Autologin]
Relogin=false
Session=plasma
User=your_username
4

sorry didn’t exactly be clear:
it seems as though once I make changes selecting user=myname and session=plasmawayland and clicking apply and then entering passwd to make changes… After reboot it is showing user= empty and session= empty <---- also it is defaulting to breeze sddm theme which isn’t what I even have selected.
Seems that it isn’t keeping changes.

Update: As long as I don’t change the SDDM theme fron “breeze” and select “autologin user=myname and session=plasmawayland” it will write the changes and save them even after ‘reboot or shudown’. But… it won’t autologin, it just goes to the login sddm screen.

5

What if you edit the config files directly instead of changing it through the GUI? Add this file /etc/sddm.conf.d/autologin.conf:

[Autologin]
user=your_name
session=plasmawayland
6

This does not work as well.