Auto login Fedora 11

Another note for future installs of Fedora.
I use the auto login feature in Fedora and it wasn't working on my latest install. I have had this problem in the past and never figured out why until now.
In the KDE settings there is a "Login Manager" where you can set automatic and password-less login which I set everything and it still didn't work.
I use KDE but decided to install Gnome as well to try it a bit. I used "switchdesk kde" to change to KDE. Apparently Fedora uses GDM by default not KDM if you install Gnome. The settings only effect KDM! I normally do not even install Gnome to save space so if GDM is missing it will default to KDM. This explains why it normally works for me, but some times, like now, it does not!
The solution is to add the file (if missing) /etc/sysconfig/desktop and add/change the entry
DESKTOPMANAGER="KDE"
Reboot. Now it works.

Posted on 16 Aug 2009, 10:01 - Category: Linux
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