Must have
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.
Examples: dunst, mako, and swaync.
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 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
a file does not exist on your install, please refer to your distro’s documentation
for help.
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-authentication-agent-1. On some distributions
you might have to use a different path
/usr/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 or /usr/libexec/kf5/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.