Medium
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A Modern Arch Linux Installation Guide Using archinstall + Niri WM -Part-1 | by Md. Tanjil Bhuiyan | Medium
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.
Reddit
reddit.com › r/swaywm › polkit or seatd
r/swaywm on Reddit: Polkit or seatd
October 8, 2022 -
What does it actually do? And which is better for sway(pros and cons)?
SeatAccess labels incorrect
A normal Arch system has two options for providing seat access: seatd (the daemon) systemd-logind And yet, the options provided by archinstall is: seatd polkit polkit does not provide any form of s... More on github.com
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May 15, 2025Polkit issues
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 u... More on github.com
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October 28, 2025Need help on decision
Hyprland has its own polkit agent now so that is generally recommended. https://wiki.hyprland.org/Hypr-Ecosystem/hyprpolkitagent/ More on reddit.com
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April 30, 2025ayuda con polkit
¡Hola! Haz esto: spawn-at-startup "/usr/lib/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1" O podrías hacer la sugerencia del wiki y abrir una terminal y correr: systemctl --user edit --full plasma-polkit-agent.service Reemplazo After=plasma-core.target con After=graphical-session.target Luego corre: systemctl --user add-wants niri.service plasma-polkit-agent.service Luego puedes quitar la cosa de "spawn" de config.kdl More on reddit.com
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September 20, 2025Alpine Linux
wiki.alpinelinux.org › wiki › Polkit
Polkit - Alpine Linux
March 27, 2026 - For graphical applications, polkit relies on elogind or Seatd to determine the identity of the user making a request.
Arch Linux Forums
bbs.archlinux.org › viewtopic.php
polkit doesn't work in wayland [solved] / Applications & Desktop Environments / Arch Linux Forums
July 18, 2025 - $ pacman -Qi niri Name : niri Version : 25.05.1-2 Description : A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor Architecture : x86_64 URL : https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri Licenses : GPL-3.0-or-later Groups : None Provides : None Depends On : cairo gcc-libs glib2 glibc libdisplay-info libinput libpipewire libxkbcommon mesa pango pixman seatd systemd-libs xdg-desktop-portal-impl Optional Deps : alacritty: a suggested GPU-accelerated terminal emulator bash: for niri-session script [installed] fuzzel: a suggested Wayland application launcher [installed] mako: a suggested Wayland notification daemon [instal
Grokipedia
grokipedia.com › niri (wayland compositor)
Niri (Wayland compositor) — Grokipedia
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.
GitHub
github.com › archlinux › archinstall › issues › 3467
SeatAccess labels incorrect · Issue #3467 · archlinux/archinstall
May 15, 2025 - A normal Arch system has two options for providing seat access: seatd (the daemon) systemd-logind And yet, the options provided by archinstall is: seatd polkit polkit does not provide any form of seat access. However, if systemd is built...
Author archlinux
GitHub
github.com › niri-wm › niri › issues › 2695
Polkit issues · Issue #2695 · niri-wm/niri
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)...
Author niri-wm
ArchWiki
wiki.archlinux.org › title › Sway
Sway - ArchWiki
3 weeks ago - If polkit is already installed on your system, Sway should automatically get access to your seat.
Reddit
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Arch Linux Forums
bbs.archlinux.org › viewtopic.php
[SOLVED] Wayland sessions won't start. / Newbie Corner / Arch Linux Forums
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.
Reddit
reddit.com › r/archlinux › need help on decision
r/archlinux on Reddit: Need help on decision
April 30, 2025 -
So I’m trying to install arch Linux in my desktop environment Hyperland what seat access should I select should I select polkit or seatd?
Gentoo Wiki
wiki.gentoo.org › wiki › Niri
Niri - Gentoo wiki
March 19, 2026 - 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.
Reddit
reddit.com › r/niri › ayuda con polkit
r/niri on Reddit: ayuda con polkit
September 20, 2025 -
¡Hola! Intenté instalar el agente polkit de KDE en mi sistema Arch (como en la wiki), pero no funciona.
Lo instalé con pacman y agregué "spawn-at-startup "polkit-kde-agent" " en mi config.kdl. Pero cuando inicio Steam VR (la aplicación para la que necesito el polkit), me dice que necesita ejecutar sudo y me pregunta si quiero continuar, pero no se abre ninguna ventana para la contraseña. ¿Tienen algún consejo? (Gracias de antemano).
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¡Hola! Haz esto: spawn-at-startup "/usr/lib/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1" O podrías hacer la sugerencia del wiki y abrir una terminal y correr: systemctl --user edit --full plasma-polkit-agent.service Reemplazo After=plasma-core.target con After=graphical-session.target Luego corre: systemctl --user add-wants niri.service plasma-polkit-agent.service Luego puedes quitar la cosa de "spawn" de config.kdl
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¿Cómo corriste tu app/comando? ¿Probaste a cambiar sudo por pkexec para ejecutar el comando?
Fedora Discussion
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Which Gnome service replaces polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1? - Fedora Discussion
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 ...
GitHub
github.com › hyprwm › Hyprland › discussions › 12689
libseat - seatd vs logind, systemd, polkit - remote access, no TTY? · hyprwm/Hyprland · Discussion #12689
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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Hyprland Wiki
wiki.hypr.land › Hypr-Ecosystem › hyprpolkitagent
hyprpolkitagent – Hyprland Wiki
11 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.
ArchWiki
wiki.archlinux.org › title › Polkit
polkit - ArchWiki
An authentication agent is used to make the user of a session prove that they really are the user (by authenticating as the user) or an administrative user (by authenticating as an administrator). The polkit package contains pkttyagent, a textual authentication agent which is used as a general fallback.
Codeberg
codeberg.org › lukeflo › fuzzel-polkit-agent
lukeflo/fuzzel-polkit-agent: An authentication agent for `polkit` using `fuzzel` menu - Codeberg.org
To use this script as polkit agent, follow these steps: Install all dependencies. ... Run the script on startup. E.g. with the init script of your window manager or with the .desktop entry · On most systems you can simply place the .desktop file inside your local autostart folder (using XDG Autostart conventions or dex). Otherwise, you can start the deamon from your init script (.xinitrc, i3/sway/niri config etc.).