So I’ve recently made the move and switched from DEs like GNOME or KDE to hyprland. It seems to work great, but every time I initially launch it, I see the error / warning: you have one or more incomparable xdg-desktop-portal-impls installed please remove incomparable ones to avoid issues.
I’ve looked online a bunch, but I’ve only found posts offering solutions specifically for arch linux, and I am on Fedora.
I understand that I have some duplicate implementations of portals (?), but I don’t feel comfortable to just yoink random packages. Obviously, I would be happy if I get the solution for fedora, but optimally I would like a solution, that would let me figure out the redundant / incompatible package myself next time, not matter the distribution.
I hope it’s okay to ask questions like this here :)
Here is the output of sudo dnf list | grep portal if that helps:
libportal.x86_64 0.6-6.fc38 @fedora
libportal-gtk3.x86_64 0.6-6.fc38 @fedora
libportal-gtk4.x86_64 0.6-6.fc38 @fedora
xdg-desktop-portal.x86_64 1.16.0-3.fc38 @fedora
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.x86_64 44.1-1.fc38 @updates
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.x86_64 1.14.1-2.fc38 @fedora
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.x86_64 0.7.0-1.fc38 @updates
kodi-pvr-mediaportal-tvserver.x86_64 1:20.3.0-1.fc38 rpmfusion-free
libportal.i686 0.6-6.fc38 fedora
libportal-devel.i686 0.6-6.fc38 fedora
libportal-devel.x86_64 0.6-6.fc38 fedora
libportal-devel-doc.noarch 0.6-6.fc38 fedora
libportal-gtk3.i686 0.6-6.fc38 fedora
libportal-gtk3-devel.i686 0.6-6.fc38 fedora
libportal-gtk3-devel.x86_64 0.6-6.fc38 fedora
libportal-gtk4.i686 0.6-6.fc38 fedora
libportal-gtk4-devel.i686 0.6-6.fc38 fedora
libportal-gtk4-devel.x86_64 0.6-6.fc38 fedora
libportal-qt5.i686 0.6-6.fc38 fedora
libportal-qt5.x86_64 0.6-6.fc38 fedora
libportal-qt5-devel.i686 0.6-6.fc38 fedora
libportal-qt5-devel.x86_64 0.6-6.fc38 fedora
python3-portalocker.noarch 2.7.0-1.fc38 fedora
tmt-report-reportportal.noarch 1.24.1-1.fc38 updates
xdg-desktop-portal.i686 1.16.0-3.fc38 fedora
xdg-desktop-portal-devel.i686 1.16.0-3.fc38 fedora
xdg-desktop-portal-devel.x86_64 1.16.0-3.fc38 fedora
xdg-desktop-portal-kde.x86_64 5.27.5-1.fc38 updates
xdg-desktop-portal-lxqt.x86_64 0.3.0-2.fc38 fedora
Your problem is the coexistence of these three portals:
xdg-desktop-portal-{wlr,gnome,gtk}
You can remove the unused one to get rid of the warning (e.g. keep wlr and potenially also gtk for hyprland). Their main functionality is opening file and screensharing dialogues. Could be that you have to install the gnome one again if you switch to that DE. Read more here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal
Hope it helps!
Thanks! So I have to uninstall the portals of all the other DEs I have installed? Because currently, I have a handy dandy DE selector on my login screen. I mean, I didn’t really intend to set it up like this, but it’s nice to have :)
The problem is you have the kde, lxqt, gnome, gtk and wlroots (wlr) desktop portals installed, so the kde, lxqt and gnome portals are the issues, but removing them might break any of these desktops you have installed.
You seem to have three desktop portals installed. Gnome, KDE and lxqt. Only use one.
I’ve replied this to a different comment as well, but wouldn’t this mean I couldn’t switch back? Because currently I can just select my DE in a dropdown on the login screen.
No you can always recover, uninstall it and reinstall later if you need it.
Looks like you could just
mv /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/portals/gnome.portal /home/<your-profile>and remove the associated env variable. This way you don’t mess with your packages. I’d start with the wiki linked in this thread.Okay, I uninstalled the gnome portal, which meant I had to uninstall
gnome-shell, which lead to GMD crashing (that I was apparently using lol), which was scary at first, but I was able to startHyperlandfrom a TTY without issue, and don’t receive an error anymore, thanks!Awesome! Glad it worked out
