Plasma Wayland vs X11 auto login - [SOLVED]

Progman3K · l33t Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 783

Hi,

If I log out and select Plasma X-11 instead of Wayland, and log back in, then every time I go to the SDDM login menu, Plasma X-11 is set as default.

EXCEPT if I set my user to auto-login.

Then it will automatically select Wayland no matter what I set as default.

The reasons I'd prefer X11 are

- The machine is older and is running the open source nvidia (nouveau) driver, and Wayland makes the mouse VERY SLOW, unusable, really.
- The login also autostarts the VNC server x11vnc. I'm not sure if there is a Wayland solution for this.

Any insights appreciated

42n4 · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2015 Posts: 23

Progman3K · l33t Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 783

Hi 42n4!

Thanks for taking the time!
Hmm... Tried what you wrote, and it doesn't seem to change anything...
Perhaps it changes what the default session in the login drop-down will be, but auto-login still picks up wayland...

Maybe I'm not typing it right.

The file contains only that one line, no sections..

Eureka!

The file I had to modify was in fact

/etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf

It now contains

[Autologin]
Relogin=false
Session=plasmax11
User=myuser

And it works as expected!

Thanks, 42n4!!!