Important Software

Pinnacle is just a compositor. We are still a ways off from having custom bars, notifications, etc. like Awesome, so this page should lay out a handful of useful software that you will want.

Bars, panels, and other widgets

TIP

I highly recommend a bar because you can currently lose a floating window behind tiled ones. A bar allows you to bring the floating window back to the front.

https://github.com/rcalixte/awesome-wayland?tab=readme-ov-file#widgets-bars-panels-etc

Notification daemons

https://github.com/rcalixte/awesome-wayland?tab=readme-ov-file#notifications

XDG desktop portals

Portals allow you to screenshare and use Flatpak apps. They require you to run Pinnacle as a session.

The following portals are recommended and are used in pinnacle-portals.conf:

• xdg-desktop-portal-gtk: As a fallback for most portal activities like file picking and other basic things
• xdg-desktop-portal-wlr: For screencasting
• gnome-keyring: For the Secret portal

Authentication agents

Authentication agents allow applications to request superuser privileges for things like writing to root-owned directories.

See the Polkit page on the Arch wiki for a list of authentication agents.