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title: Must have
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This page documents software that is **strongly** recommended to have running
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for a smooth Hyprland experience.
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DEs like Plasma or GNOME will take care of this automatically. Hyprland will
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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`)
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Many apps (e.g. Discord) may freeze without one running.
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Examples: `dunst`, `mako`, and `swaync`.
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### Pipewire
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_Starting method:_ Automatic on systemd, manual otherwise.
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Pipewire is not necessarily required, but screensharing will not work without
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it.
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Install `pipewire` and `wireplumber` (**not** `pipewire-media-session`).
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#### Non-systemd distros
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Since there is no truly standardized way (outside of systemd) to load PipeWire
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when starting a graphical shell,[^1] non-systemd distros like Gentoo or Artix
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provide a dedicated launcher.
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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
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for help.
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[^1]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PipeWire#OpenRC
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### XDG Desktop Portal
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_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,
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screensharing, etc.
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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`)
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Authentication agents are the things that pop up a window asking you for a
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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`.
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You can autostart it with
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`exec-once=/usr/lib/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1`. On some distributions
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you might have to use a different path
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`/usr/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1` or `/usr/libexec/kf5/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1`.
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On other distributions that use a more recent version, such as Gentoo, it may be
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necessary to use
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`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)
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Install `qt5-wayland` and `qt6-wayland`.
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