December 4, 2025 - They are not exactly same. seatd is the better choice for Niri because it’s lightweight, simple, and designed specifically to give Wayland compositors direct access to input devices and graphics hardware.

March 27, 2026 - For a minimal desktop like Sway, polkit can be used with seatd with certain limitations. With Seatd, polkit rules can only evaluate group membership, resulting in a 'yes' or 'no' decision.

May 15, 2025 - As such, the question is whether you want to use systemd-logind (which requires polkit because of Arch's choice of build flags), or seatd (which requires just enabling the service - a display server supporting it would depend on the package to pull in libseat).

July 18, 2025 - i've tried various polkit agents but they all give the same error message · $ pkexec gparted Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified (gpartedbin:8878): Gtk-WARNING **: 23:47:30.995: cannot open display: :0 ... Poikit is not a (direct) dependency of niri and is also not mentioned on https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Niri .

March 25, 2026 - On Arch Linux, seat access can be provided in two main ways: seatd (recommended for minimal/tiling setups): A lightweight daemon designed specifically for Wayland compositors. ... Pros: Minimal resource usage, low overhead, direct device access.

3 weeks ago - Alternatively, if polkit is not installed on your system and you want to use seatd instead, add yourself to the seat user group and enable/start seatd.service, then re-log.

September 26, 2023 - And given where this thread started, I figured you were of a similar opinion. If you do not have reasons to explicitly avoid polkit, then just get rid of seatd - polkit is socket activated (or similarly handles stuff itself behind the scenes) so you don't have to do anything specific to use / enable it.

December 20, 2025 - My goal is to be able to log into a headless setup with VNC or some moonlight based client. I have no real access to a normal TTY - however a GPU is in the system. It's installed on an Ampere A...

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10 hours ago - hyprpolkitagent is a polkit authentication daemon. It is required for GUI applications to be able to request elevated privileges. If it’s not available in your distro’s repositories, you can either build it from source or use a different agent, e.g. KDE’s one.

June 19, 2025 - Hello there! Since polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 is not available anymore in the repos, I imagine because of changes in Gnome. Is there a new service that must be used instead when using Hyprland or Niri? As I use Fedora Workstation as base for using Hyprland and now trying Niri, and I’ve bee…

Niri must be run with the niri-session script to run portals, either through a display manager or manually. ... Polkit is necessary for a user to mount drives in a file manager, such as Nautilus.

October 28, 2025 - Having issues with authenticating using Polkit. On Polkit: trying to use GUI apps that require Polkit (e.g. pamac) results in a failed verification error. System Information I'm starting Niri using GDM. niri version: niri 25.08 (01be0e6)...

June 23, 2023 - But it is only a handful of distros at this point that have totally refused the use of elogind and stick to consolekit2 (which was recently upgraded upstream unlike common myth that has it abandoned). Consolekit2 can handle logind functionality but can’t provide seat management. So there is seatd, a daemon that just does this.

February 20, 2023 - how does cosmic need seatd? i saw that sway, resp wlroots, needs seatd. gnome does not. there is a discussion on the arch linux bug tracker which kind of goes : seatd or polkit for sway: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/73547 (sorry to as...

2 weeks ago - ... If you are already logged in as a $USER, you will need to relogin. Polkit can be configured and used for authentication with seatd with certain limitations. Since seatd doesn't provide detailed session tracking, polkit rules that rely on these properties (e.g., subject.active, subject.local) ...

Hello. How to properly use seatd with polkit?