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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.
### A notification daemon
_Starting method:_ most likely manual (`exec-once`)
Many apps (e.g. Discord) may freeze without one running.
Use e.g. `dunst`, `mako`, `swaync`, etc.
### Pipewire
_Starting method:_ Automatic on Systemd, manual otherwise
Pipewire is not necessarily required, but screensharing will not work without
it.
Install `pipewire` and `wireplumber` (**not** `pipewire-media-session`)
#### Non-systemd distros
Since here 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 decicated launcher.
It can be usually found by running `whereis <distro>-pipewire-launcher`. If such
file does not exist on your install please refer to your distro's documentation
for help.
[^1]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PipeWire#OpenRC
### XDG Desktop Portal
_Starting method:_ Automatic on Systemd, manual otherwise
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)
### Authentication Agent
_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.
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
`/usr/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1`.
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.
### Qt Wayland Support
_Starting method:_ none (just a library)
Install `qt5-wayland` and `qt6-wayland`.