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
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 start Hyperland from a TTY without issue, and don’t receive an error anymore, thanks!
