KDEs 'System Settings' was then used to enable autologin. This failed to have any effect. A perusal of '/etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc' showed that the changes were being written.
On tracking through '/etc/rc.d/rc.4' I discovered that 'gdm' was being used, which I presumed meant that 'kdmrc' was not being used. As 'rc.4' was running
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if [ -x /usr/sbin/gdm ]; then
exec /usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon
fi
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if [ -x /usr/bin/kdm ]; then
exec /usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
elif [ -x /opt/kde/bin/kdm ]; then
exec /opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon
fi
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chmod -x /usr/sbin/gdm
I am not sure my solution is the best one as some may wish to use gdm, or some other display manager, under KDE. I would imagine that this is ultimately a KDE problem as KDE would need to write its settings to its own Desktop configuration files, not the DMs. However, should something be added to Salixs KDE installation script to alleviate the problem, perhaps something as simple as the 'chmod' I used to fix my installation?