autoLogin to "gamer" user, switch to desktop to login screen

[jasonboukheir]

my jovian.nix file

Previous to recent changes, I had this setup:

1. on boot, autologin to gamer user with gamescope session. I wasn't using jovian autoLogin here, managing it manually.
2. Click "Switch to Desktop", go to the regreet greeter where I can log back into gamer user, or my admin user, jasonbk to manage the system.
3. Login to jasonbk to access admin with hyprland setup.

this was nice because I could have the computer setup to launch steam on boot for when I wanted to use it in the living room, but could also treat it as a dev machine on my desk. However, after recent changes to use sddm, my approach no longer works. I'm wondering if someone could help me figure out how to get this approach back?

I just tried to use sddm by default, but now all my sessions launch as gamescope. Here's my attempts: jasonboukheir/dotfiles#8

[K900]

Why do you have two users at all? You can just switch between sessions on a single user.

[jasonboukheir]

I want autologin, but not to a user that is part of "wheel" group. I wanted to let people boot the machine to play games, but not to login to my personal account without a password.

I could probably handle all of this with specialisations and swap them at boot, but that's kind of annoying to get back to my admin user.

[K900]

Why does that matter though? You still need a password to use sudo, which is exactly as much authentication as you're going to get at login.

[jasonboukheir]

it's true that you need to use sudo to do administrative things, but whoever is logged in will be able to read anything owned by my user account

[jasonboukheir]

im going to try a specialisation approach, I think it will get harder and harder to have this setup without that, and really, I just want a dual use of my system as a gaming computer and a development machine that only makes sense with specialisations. I'll come back here and let you know how that goes!