KDE Auto Login

[Rex Dieter]

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:

> On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 23:05 +0100, bitlord wrote:
>> On Mon, 05 Jan 2015 12:04:08 -0800
>> Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net> wrote:
>> 
>> > Is the KDE auto login function, which automatically starts a user
>> > session when the system boots up, still available under Fedora 21?
>> > If so, how can it be enabled?
>> > 
>> > System is
>> >     4 processor x86_64
>> >     KDE 4.14.3
>> >     Fedora 21
>> 
>> Autologin is supported, in f21 KDE spin, sddm is now default (instead
>> of kdm for fresh installs), and recent changes to it broke
>> 'sddm-kcm' (kde system-settings module for sddm), but you can still
>> check '/etc/sddm.conf' [Autologin] section (there is a "template" file)
>> and edit what you want to set differently.
> 
> Is there some file under my home directory (probably under $HOME/.kde)
> that supersedes /etc/sddm.conf when it exists? 

no.

> Also where is the "template" file?

I think the poster meant there are sample/template config entries in the 
existing /etc/sddm.conf about it (autologin).

-- Rex