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How to configue and autolaunch a polkit agent (Kde)

Introduction

This is a micro-guide to configure a polkit agent on Arch Linux.

Steps

1. Download a polkit manager (I chose the Kde one):

   pacman -S polkit-kde-agent

2. it creates a xdg .desktop entry in /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1.desktop

3. dex is needeed to autolaunch xdg entries:

   pacman -S dex

4. Add the command to an autolaunch script. Since I use bspwm I will add it to its coonfig file:

   echo "dex -a /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1.desktop" >> .config/bspwm/bspwmrc