I’ve been using Fedora Sway Spin for several months and I like it a lot. I chose drive encryption with LUKS during installation. Now, however, I have to enter my password two times. I was trying to set up autologin but failed to do so. What I did is: sudo systemctl edit getty@tty1 and added these…

[image] Alex L: by sway here, I mean graphical login manager that locks screen – not tty If you are using a Desktop Manager like GDM, SDDM, or LXDM, the method to enable autologin will be different. If you want that getty@tty1.service to handle the autologin, you will need to disable your Des…

Thank you very much! I’m not prompted for my password a second time now.

“F44 Change Proposal” – You mean, there may be a time when my system won’t start automatically after installing some updates?

Yes, as it stands, it looks like when you upgrade to Fedora Linux 44, your autologin will stop working. At least for a while, you should be able to work around the problem by uninstalling the kmscon* packages. For now, it is just something to watch out for. It won’t be a big problem until more sig…

I see. I’ll create a note for my future self. Thank you.

If you want to be a little more proactive, I think adding the following to /etc/dnf/dnf.conf should prevent the kmscon packages from getting installed when you upgrade Fedora Linux. [main] excludepkgs=kmscon* But hopefully by then the compatibility problems between Sway and kmscon will be solved a…

Thanks. I did that as well now. P.S. for those who will be using this discussion as a guide in the future, If you, as I, find after these modifications that your environment is partly broken, it is because your .bash_profile is not read past this line: exec sway So you may want to place the condi…

It will be likely postponed to F45, so you have one release more before it may break. But you can also adapt it to work with kmscon Something like: sudo systemctl edit kmsconvt@tty1 [Service] ExecStart= ExecStart=-kmscon --vt=%I --seats=seat0 --no-switchvt --login – /sbin/agetty -8 -o ‘-p – \u’…

Will that "$(tty)" command evaluate correctly? IIRC, I was getting a somewhat random /dev/pts/<n> value from the tty command. The value of <n> wasn’t always 0. If you changed to another VT with Ctrl+Alt+F<N>, tty would return something other than /dev/pts/0 and there was no way to get back to the “o…

ah you’re right, this will need some adaptation. at boot you’ll likely get /dev/pts/0, but it’s not wise to rely on that. you can instead check that [[ $(cat /sys/class/tty/tty0/active) == “tty1” ]] and ${COLORTERM} = “kmscon”

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glb (Gregory Lee Bartholomew) February 16, 2026, 3:50pm 3

P.S. Be aware that there is a change proposal in the works for Fedora Linux 44 that might “break” this setup: F44 Change Proposal: UseKmsconVTConsole [SystemWide]

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