Must Have
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)
Starting method: most likely manual (exec-once)
Many apps (e.g. Discord) may freeze without one running.
Use e.g. dunst, mako, swaync, etc.
Starting method: automatic
Pipewire is not necessarily required, but screensharing will not work without it.
Install pipewire and wireplumber (not pipewire-media-session)
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
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.
Starting method: none (just a library)
Install qt5-wayland and qt6-wayland.