Here’s a quick how to on setting user x to auto login under KDE 4. You may want to do this if it’s your machine at home, or you really have no security reason to have a login screen.

If you didn’t set it at the installation screens you can easily set it up in systemsettings with the Login Manager module.

To do this first open your systemsettings:

You can do that using your kde launcher, or using the command line interface and typing:

From here you will go to the advanced tabs and click on “Login Manager” (as you see below)

Enter in your password on the prompt

Once you launch the Login Manager Module, you’ll click on the “Convenience” tab. Right under the big red Attention Please Read you’ll see the “Enable Auto-Login” checkbox. After checking the Enable Auto-Login checkbox, you’ll use the drop down menu to pick the user you want to auto-login with. Here’s a before and after:

If you want to do it in the command line, you can add the following into /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc:

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