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title: hyprpolkitagent
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---
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hyprpolkitagent is a polkit authentication daemon. It is required for GUI applications to
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be able to request elevated privileges.
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If it's not available in your distro's repositories, you can either [build it from source](https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprpolkitagent)
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or use a different agent, e.g. [KDE's one](https://github.com/KDE/polkit-kde-agent-1/).
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## Usage
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Add `exec-once = systemctl --user start hyprpolkitagent` to your Hyprland config and restart hyprland.
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(obviously change that to whatever you are using if you are not using the hypr one)
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On distributions that use a different init system, such as Gentoo, it may be
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necessary to use
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`exec-once=/usr/lib64/libexec/hyprpolkitagent` instead.
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Other possible paths include
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`/usr/lib/hyprpolkitagent` and
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`/usr/libexec/hyprpolkitagent`.
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