A good day to you, sirs! I’m trying to keep my Legion Go 2 from automatically booting into SteamOS Gaming mode (I’d instead like to be greeted by the default SDDM login screen to choose my preferred environment, which is Desktop Mode/Plasma). At first, I found GUI settings (System Settings → Appaer…

It works the same under plasma-login-manager. It’s just a different conf directory. Place the following file at /etc/sddm.conf.d/zzz-override-cachyos-settings.conf for SDDM or /etc/plasmalogin.conf.d/zzz-override-cachyos-settings.conf for plasma-login-manager. [Autologin] Relogin=false Session= U…

[Autologin] Session=plasma.desktop But it has no effect. Should I remove it? Yes, but your showing more .conf’s are coming at me that may impact my method. [image] HisDudeness: Should I manually create the file? I don’t think I had to make it, but i could be wrong…. Wait let’s take a loo…

/etc/sddm.conf.d/zz-steamos-autologin.conf [Autologin] Session=plasma.desktop Note that I edited this according to what I read around. If I recall correctly (I know, I should back up the originals before editing them, why do I never learn?), before my edit it just had no value for that variable…

Please try my suggestion in zz-steamos-autologin.conf [Autologin] Relogin=false Session= User=

Unfortunately, that had no effect either. I went one step further and copied it with the zz-zoverrides.conf name, but it still boots into gaming mode nonetheless. Edit: didn’t mention I deleted the other conf I created before trying both.

[image] HisDudeness: Edit: didn’t mention I deleted the other conf I created before trying both. I’m starting to “think” this is Hard Coded now. Unfortunately I don’t have your device to play around on currently. I have to gracefully withdraw…. EDIT: I think I found a possible: Run: stea…

Also I’m told, This workaround may not work reliably if you’re using the Plasma Login Manager (beta), as it can interfere with session selection. Consider rolling back to SDDM if issues persist. That might be our problem on those script changes we tried. But do try my Last suggestion: [image] …

First of all, thank you for your help and patience! I quickly read the same thing after doing other searches, so I tried exactly that route, but I couldn’t write about it since my train arrived in my station and I had to get off. Unfortunately, plasma-persistent does not exist, probably one of the…

Nope. Sadly, I have to report no persistent session gets recognised. All of plasma-persistent, plasma-wayland-persistent and plasma-x11-persistent give the result !! Unknown session 'plasma-persistent' and so on. I’m searching around to see if I can find a workaround.

I wrote to the author of the script, but he replied that the issue is probably on the OS part. A brutal workaround that comes to my mind would be to simply install the Desktop Version of CachyOS in order to avoid SteamOS being installed, and then manually installing packages needed for gaming and ot…

I. Can’t. Believe it. That was the issue. Just the wrong target/folder. My issue was indeed solved by doing inside /etc/plasmalogin.conf.d/ what I did inside /etc/sddm.conf.d/. I took for granted that the login manager was SDDM, since I was used to dealing with it on my laptop’s KDE system, I would …

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Just to include the sddm example;