Switch desktop to autologin breaks autologin

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SDDM Configuration Editor

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Switch desktop to autologin breaks autologin #50

Open arcolinuxz opened 3 years ago

arcolinuxz commented 3 years ago

Arch Linux / ArcoLinux Version : sddm-config-editor-git 0.1.r76.g35f615b-1 sddm 0.19.0-6

Problem: Changing the desktop to autologin breaks your system.

If line 4 session variable should point to the desktop file name without .desktop so sddm can boot up Xfce. Now the result is a pathway and sddm does not like it. We end up in a black screen.

https://youtu.be/ZRmKINYaX1A

stefonarch commented 3 years ago

man sddm.conf is not really clear about:

Session=
              Name of the session to automatically log in when the system starts first time.  Default value is empty.

Arch wiki says: no suffix: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#Autologin

Edit: confirmed after some tests. I had autologin working until some point some months ago when it stopped working (no blacj screen, just login) and never found the cause, it's probably this. Looks like sddm around version 0.19.0-1 changed behavior.

arcolinuxz commented 3 years ago

no suffix and no path

stefonarch commented 3 years ago

Cannot reproduce it anymore under debian. Edit: it is still broken - just leaving it empty it will not write path and suffix.

arcolinuxz commented 3 years ago

We have moved away from this tool. I will unsubscribe now.