hyprland-wiki/pages/Hypr Ecosystem/hyprpolkitagent.md

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title: hyprpolkitagent
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hyprpolkitagent is a polkit authentication daemon. It is required for GUI applications to
be able to request elevated privileges.

If it's not available in your distro's repositories, you can either [build it from source](https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprpolkitagent)
or use a different agent, e.g. [KDE's one](https://github.com/KDE/polkit-kde-agent-1/).

## Usage

Add `exec-once = systemctl --user start hyprpolkitagent` to your Hyprland config and restart hyprland.
(obviously change that to whatever you are using if you are not using the hypr one)

If Hyprland is started with [uwsm](../../Useful-Utilities/Systemd-start), you can autostart the polkit agent with the command `systemctl --user enable --now hyprpolkitagent.service`.

On distributions that use a different init system, such as Gentoo, it may be
necessary to use
`exec-once=/usr/lib64/libexec/hyprpolkitagent` instead.

Other possible paths include
`/usr/lib/hyprpolkitagent` and
`/usr/libexec/hyprpolkitagent`.
ecosystem: add polkit agent 2024-10-16 16:29:27 +02:00			`---`
			`weight: 8`
			`title: hyprpolkitagent`
			`---`

			`hyprpolkitagent is a polkit authentication daemon. It is required for GUI applications to`
			`be able to request elevated privileges.`

			`If it's not available in your distro's repositories, you can either [build it from source](https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprpolkitagent)`
			`or use a different agent, e.g. [KDE's one](https://github.com/KDE/polkit-kde-agent-1/).`

			`## Usage`

polkit agent epic c+p fail lmao 2024-10-16 16:46:18 +02:00			Add `exec-once = systemctl --user start hyprpolkitagent` to your Hyprland config and restart hyprland.
ecosystem: add polkit agent 2024-10-16 16:29:27 +02:00			`(obviously change that to whatever you are using if you are not using the hypr one)`

Fix the remaining links to UWSM (#863) * Update hypridle.md * Update hyprpaper.md * Update hyprpolkitagent.md * Update Dispatchers.md * Update Environment-variables.md * Update Status-Bars.md 2024-11-11 19:31:46 +01:00			If Hyprland is started with [uwsm](../../Useful-Utilities/Systemd-start), you can autostart the polkit agent with the command `systemctl --user enable --now hyprpolkitagent.service`.
Add mention about possibility to start hypridle, hyprpaper and hyprpolkit with systemd services (#842) 2024-11-04 22:56:18 +01:00
ecosystem: add polkit agent 2024-10-16 16:29:27 +02:00			`On distributions that use a different init system, such as Gentoo, it may be`
			`necessary to use`
			`exec-once=/usr/lib64/libexec/hyprpolkitagent` instead.

			`Other possible paths include`
			`/usr/lib/hyprpolkitagent` and
Add mention about possibility to start hypridle, hyprpaper and hyprpolkit with systemd services (#842) 2024-11-04 22:56:18 +01:00			`/usr/libexec/hyprpolkitagent`.