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This page documents software that is critical / very important to have running for a smooth Wayland / Hyprland experience.
DEs like KDE / Gnome will do this automatically, Hyprland will not (because 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, etc.
Pipewire
Starting method: automatic
Pipewire is not necessairly required, but screensharing will not work without it.
Install pipewire and wireplumber (not pipewire-media-session)
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
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-authentification-agent-1.