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title: Must have
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This page documents software that is **strongly** recommended to have running
for a smooth Hyprland experience.
DEs like Plasma or GNOME will take care of this automatically. Hyprland will
not, as you might want to use something else.
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### A notification daemon
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_Starting method:_ most likely manual (`exec-once`)
Many apps (e.g. Discord) may freeze without one running.
Examples: `dunst`, `mako`, and `swaync`.
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### Pipewire
_Starting method:_ Automatic on systemd, manual otherwise.
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Pipewire is not necessarily required, but screensharing will not work without
it.
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Install `pipewire` and `wireplumber` (**not** `pipewire-media-session`).
#### Non-systemd distros
Since there is no truly standardized way (outside of systemd) to load PipeWire
when starting a graphical shell,[^1] non-systemd distros like Gentoo or Artix
provide a dedicated launcher.
It can be usually found by running `whereis <distro>-pipewire-launcher`. If such
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a file does not exist on your install, please refer to your distro's
documentation for help.
[^1]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PipeWire#OpenRC
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### XDG Desktop Portal
_Starting method:_ Automatic on systemd, manual otherwise.
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XDG Desktop Portal handles a lot of stuff for your desktop, like file pickers,
screensharing, etc.
See the [Hyprland Desktop Portal Page.](../xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland)
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### Authentication Agent
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_Starting method:_ manual (`exec-once`)
Authentication agents are the things that pop up a window asking you for a
password whenever an app wants to elevate its privileges.
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Our recommendation is the KDE one. For arch, it's `polkit-kde-agent`.
You can autostart it with
`exec-once=/usr/lib/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1`. On some distributions
you might have to use a different path which could be
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`/ usr/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1`,
`/usr/libexec/kf5/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1`, or
`/usr/libexec/kf6/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1`.
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On other distributions that use a more recent version, such as Gentoo, it may be
necessary to use
`exec-once=/usr/lib64/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1` instead.
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### Qt Wayland Support
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_Starting method:_ none (just a library)
Install `qt5-wayland` and `qt6-wayland`.