Bug 512542

Summary: Auto Login Doesn't Work
Product: [Plasma] plasma-login-manager Reporter: Dashon <dashonwwIII>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: dashonwwIII, kde, olib141
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Dashon 2025-11-24 03:55:42 UTC
SUMMARY
Hey, I recently saw this packaged in the kde unstable repo on arch and decided to test it out. I know it isn't considered ready for production, but still wanted to give it a go. So far everything works fine. It shows up and I can login. Which is kinda all you need.

However, I have noticed that autologin does not appear to work. I have copied the section from the sddm file to /etc/plasmalogin.conf as mentioned in the readme. I also tried using the kcm for plasma login manager that it is included in the package. It creates the file /etc/plasma-login.conf. However, that doesn't appear to work either.

Something else strange that I noticed is that the old sddm file for autologin used my username for example "kcarrot2" where as plasma login uses my "display name"? Which in this case is my actual name.

Just wanted to know if this is a known issue, a problem with the arch package, or just me being stupid? Maybe all of the above. Maybe "sddm" needs to be completely uninstalled because of some kind of conflict? If none of the above then I believe I have found a bug.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open system settings.
2. Go to "Login Screen".
3. Now choose which user automatically login as user.

OBSERVED RESULT
The login screen shows as always.

EXPECTED RESULT
My user should automatically be logged in.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: EndeavourOS 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.20.0
Qt Version: 6.10.0
Kernel Version: 6.17.8-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.7 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7C95
System Version: 1.0
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2026-01-14 14:55:15 UTC
Should be fixed in the beta