For Slackware-current (since the release of Slackware 15) it is now a directory and the file in it is what you need to edit. When I used this trick to boot Slackware 14.2 /etc/sddm.conf.d was the name of the file and Autologin was the subsection on it that you would need to edit

Even in Slackware -current there is no directory "/etc/sddm.conf.d/"; perhaps you added that manually? It is not created or added by any of the Slackware packages. In Slackware 14.2 there was no file called "/etc/sddm.conf.d", because there was no SDDM in that release. Again, perhaps something you added manually.

hmm, i have to admit now that i inadvertently may have damaged my filesystem in my experiments to master libvirt and do a gpu passthrough. Unfortunately this resulted in a need to reinstall which i did at the same time i upgraded to a western digital black nvme drive (which was a good purchase in my case). As for libvirt i also had some success but only on my intel system and that with just a 2 (onboard intel gpu and discrete nvidia card) gpu solution while i passed through the nvidia discrete card using the intel on the host system. Well to make a long story short my sddm problems were pretty much solved with the stock configuration file (sddm.conf) and adding sddm to the video group as well as a
reinstall.

Offtopic) And how feel your 2006 HP desktop on Windows 10/ Slackware64?

Bump. And why Slackware do not have outfrombox, default autologin using XDM?

I certainly won't presume to know Patrick's thinking on that but I can venture a guess based on lowest common denominator. If we look at polls, we can see that KDE Plasma is by a fairly wide margin the more common DE. Even among those who prefer XFCE, Enlightenment, or Fluxbox many use SDDM whether they realize it or not. Considering SDDM has more configurable options and uses no more resources than XDM and provides the KWin compositor which is often used in not only KDE but Xfce, Enlightenment and even Fluxbox, especially if one selects the choice for those to load KDE libraries upon login to make KDE apps snappier and more immediately useful.

XDM can probably be modified for autologin but SDDM has a specific checkbox for that in "SystemSettings" by default making it easier for those who desire booting directly to X.

Slow man. Even slower than me at times but the whole idea of it started as a FREE old computer to help me through a bout with bad health. I had an unused Windows 7 full install kicking around that not only worked but was upgraded to Windows 10 for FREE by Microsoft.

Over a period of several months I started by trying Puppy Linux followed by many other Linux operating systems that claim to be light on resources. Soon that approach was abandoned as I found that Puppy is not really any lighter than any other Linux. To prove that train of thought I installed Slackware64 14.2 The next development came and went and now this old relic I call Dino-Puter is running Slackware64 15.0+ (current).

Slow is the one word that describes Dino-Puter but I didn't expect a dinosaur to be fast.
Thanks for asking

Heya Gordie. I know this is a tangent but OP seems interested in it so I thought I might comment in an attempt to help out. I have several active PCs with various systems installed and 2 of them are circa 2006-2007. One is a SuperMicro system, that's a bit ahead of the development curve so I'll focus on my slightly less advanced for the era, T61P Thinkpad. I've been running first Slackware 14.2 then Current and now 15.0 as well as a few other distros and a few begrudging Windows installs (7 and 10) which I thought I needed to excplore WWAN type SMS service. All of them were at least passably responsive (though Win10 was rather slow to boot to a working system) but all of them got a new lease on life with the replacement of a decent Seagate 7200rpm hard drive with a $34 USD 250GB SSD. Turning off unwanted services added some difference but least of all was to Slackware since it is pretty lean by default. Now that I have other means to explore WWAN SMS I will bne all too happy to wipe any Windows from it.

BTW, and just FTR, Win 10 is not really "FREE by Microsoft". Your security as well as your privacy are literally given away to them for free and they sell that personal data to any highest bidder with little or no background checks. If you think this is no big deal for a law-abiding individual in 2022, you've likely missed considerable security and privacy news. It's worse on Smartphones but PCs are by no means safe in such hands we can casually allow in. You are better off in every way that can be measured on Linux, and especially Slackware with human readable configs and logs.... a berlated but sincere "Welcome aboard!" to you.

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