How to enable the automatic login (using my username and password) +
run startx every time FreeBSD restarts.
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loziomario · 2021-09-18 18:49

Hello to everyone.

I've passed all the day trying to understand how to launch anydesk
every time my PC reboots. It won't work if KDE doesn't restart
automatically bypassing the insertion of username and password. There
are two obstacles before it happens :

1) I should enable the automatic login into KDE plasma at each reboot

AND

2) restart automatically xorg at each reboot.

actually I enter my login and password each time the PC restarts and
then I should issue the command "startx" ,otherwise xorg does not
start. I dont know why,but it works like this. But this behavior is
not good for me because I want to make available anydesk interactively
for my cooworkers each time the PC reboots. Infact I have also enabled
the booting from FreeBSD from the BIOS.

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FoFinky · 2021-09-18 23:25

It sounds to me like you don't have a display manager installed but
want the features offered by one. You can install any that you'd like
the but handbook suggests sddm as a suitable one for KDE.

You'll want to do 'pkg install sddm' then add ' SDDM_ENABLE="YES"' to
/etc/rc.conf.
I fetched this information from [the
handbook](https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/#x11-wm),
just jump down to 5.7.2.

To facilitate autologon you will need to configure sddm and the arch
wiki has a great page on that [over
here](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#Autologin).

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rykolepl · 2021-09-18 23:27

> actually I enter my login and password each time the PC restarts and
then I should issue the command "startx" ,otherwise xorg does not
start. I dont know why,but it works like this.

I think you need login manager. Since you are using KDE, then SDDM is
probably the best choice. This way, when pc start, xorg with sddm
starts, and asks for password in graphical mode. And from there, you
can configure sddm to auto-login. I think it's inside settings app in
KDE.

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grahamperrin · 2021-09-18 23:53

Set preferences for **SDDM**.

https://i.imgur.com/0Jd5WD9.png