OK, my wallet appears to be staking now. Maybe it just needed more time?? (It's been about 38 hours since I sent the coins to my wallet. I'm running the original .conf file.)
I have same problem with you, so you dont have to do edit the .conf file, just leave it more time and it will auto staking?
Yeah, just give it some time. My first stake came in about 6 or 7 hours after my wallet was open after I closed the wallet, edited the .conf file (I also set daemon=1 and server=1 in the .conf), saved, and then reopened my wallet. I was staking in less than 30 minutes, but my first mint came in after 6 or 7 hours.
It's possible that my mint came in before yours because I've been holding coin that I've mined and bought well the before the swap announcement. I don't know. I was fortunate enough to get my coins swapped at coinexchange.