Zirconium installs a curated set of packages to provide a complete desktop experience with the Niri window manager and DankMaterialShell.
Package sources Packages are installed from multiple sources:
Fedora repositories - Standard Fedora package setCOPR repositories - Community-maintained packagesTerra repository - Additional desktop packages and fontsNegativo17 - Multimedia codecs
COPR repositories The following COPR repositories are used during installation:
Universal Blue packages including the uupd update manager
Zirconium-specific packages:
matugen - Material Design color generationiio-niri - Automatic screen rotation for Nirivalent-git - Device integration Development builds of the Niri window manager Priority: 1 (highest) to ensure latest niri version is used
DankLinux packages:
quickshell-git - Qt-based shell scripting environment DankMaterialShell and related tools:
dms - Main shell packagedms-cli - Command-line interfacedms-greeter - Login screen greeterdgop - Graphical operations paneldsearch - Application launcher Base system packages Installed from 00-base-fetch.sh.
Networking
NetworkManager and plugins
NetworkManager NetworkManager-adsl NetworkManager-bluetooth NetworkManager-config-connectivity-fedora NetworkManager-libnm NetworkManager-openconnect NetworkManager-openvpn NetworkManager-strongswan NetworkManager-ssh NetworkManager-ssh-selinux NetworkManager-vpnc NetworkManager-wifi NetworkManager-wwan
Complete networking stack with VPN support (OpenVPN, WireGuard, OpenConnect, Strongswan, VPNC). Hardware support
alsa-firmware alsa-sof-firmware alsa-tools-firmware atheros-firmware brcmfmac-firmware intel-audio-firmware iwlegacy-firmware iwlwifi-dvm-firmware iwlwifi-mvm-firmware mt7xxx-firmware nxpwireless-firmware realtek-firmware tiwilink-firmware
Comprehensive firmware support for audio, WiFi, and Bluetooth devices.
hyperv-daemons # Hyper-V integration open-vm-tools # VMware support open-vm-tools-desktop qemu-guest-agent # QEMU/KVM support spice-vdagent # SPICE display virtualbox-guest-additions # VirtualBox (x86_64 only)
fprintd # Fingerprint reader fprintd-pam libratbag-ratbagd # Gaming mouse configuration thermald # Thermal management (x86_64 only) powerstat # Power monitoring (x86_64 only) switcheroo-control # Hybrid graphics steam-devices # Steam hardware support
System utilities audit audispd-plugins cifs-utils # SMB/CIFS support cups # Printing cups-pk-helper firewalld # Firewall fuse fuse-common fwupd # Firmware updates gum # Interactive shell utilities kernel-modules-extra man-db man-pages plymouth # Boot splash plymouth-system-theme rsync systemd-container systemd-oomd-defaults tuned # Performance tuning tuned-ppd unzip whois wireguard-tools zram-generator-defaults
Storage and filesystems gvfs-archive # Archive mounting gvfs-mtp # Android MTP gvfs-nfs # Network filesystem gvfs-smb # Samba shares ifuse # iOS device mounting jmtpfs # JMTP filesystem libimobiledevice # iOS support libimobiledevice-utils
Printing dymo-cups-drivers hplip # HP printer support printer-driver-brlaser # Brother laser printers ptouch-driver # Brother P-Touch label printers system-config-printer-libs system-config-printer-udev
Security pam_yubico # YubiKey authentication pcsc-lite # Smart card support
libcamera libcamera-v4l2 libcamera-gstreamer libcamera-tools uxplay # AirPlay server
Other utilities uupd # Universal Blue update manager
Desktop environment packages Installed from 01-theme-fetch.sh.
Window manager and shell
Niri and DankMaterialShell
niri # Scrollable tiling Wayland compositor dms # DankMaterialShell dms-cli # DMS command-line tools dms-greeter # DMS login greeter dgop # DMS graphical operations panel dsearch # DMS application launcher quickshell-git # Shell scripting framework
Note: Niri is installed from the yalter/niri-git COPR with development builds. The version is verified to contain git hash information.Wayland and display greetd # Display manager greetd-selinux xwayland-satellite # Rootful XWayland wl-clipboard # Wayland clipboard utilities wl-mirror # Screen mirroring
Desktop portals xdg-desktop-portal-gnome xdg-desktop-portal-gtk xdg-terminal-exec # Terminal launcher xdg-user-dirs # User directories
File manager nautilus nautilus-python glycin-thumbnailer # Image thumbnails
The xdg-terminal-exec-nautilus extension is installed from GitHub to enable proper terminal integration.
brightnessctl # Brightness control cava # Audio visualizer chezmoi # Dotfile manager ddcutil # Monitor control via DDC fastfetch # System information hyfetch # Neofetch alternative with pride flags input-remapper # Input device remapping just # Command runner playerctl # Media player control udiskie # Automount daemon wtype # Wayland keyboard input
Authentication and security
fcitx5-mozc # Japanese input method gnome-disk-utility gnome-keyring gnome-keyring-pam gcr # Certificate/key management gnupg2-scdaemon # Smart card support openssh-askpass orca # Screen reader ykman # YubiKey manager
fpaste # Fedora pastebin fzf # Fuzzy finder git-core khal # Calendar
Audio and video pipewire wireplumber kf6-kimageformats # Image format support webp-pixbuf-loader # WebP support qt6-qtmultimedia # Qt multimedia
Qt theming kf6-kirigami # KDE framework qt6ct # Qt6 configuration plasma-breeze # Breeze theme kf6-qqc2-desktop-style # QQC2 desktop style
Installed with install_weak_deps=False to minimize dependencies.
From the Negativo17 multimedia repository :
ffmpeg libavcodec gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-libs gstreamer1-plugins-good gstreamer1-plugins-base lame lame-libs libjxl ffmpegthumbnailer # Video thumbnails
Fonts
default-fonts-core-emoji google-noto-color-emoji-fonts google-noto-emoji-fonts glibc-all-langpacks default-fonts maple-fonts # From Terra repository
Maple Fonts provide programming ligatures and Chinese/Japanese support. Other packages flatpak # Flatpak support matugen # Material color generation iio-niri # Auto-rotation support valent-git # Device sync tailscale # VPN mesh network steam-devices # Gaming device support
Third-party installations
Zirconium default dotfiles cloned from: https://github.com/zirconium-dev/zdots.git
Installed to: /usr/share/zirconium/zdots
terra-release # Base Terra repository terra-release-extras # Extra Terra packages
Installed with --nogpgcheck and disabled by default. Enabled selectively for specific packages. NVIDIA-specific packages Installed from 02-nvidia-fetch.sh when BUILD_FLAVOR=nvidia.
Build dependencies gcc-c++ # Required for DKMS builds
NVIDIA driver stack From Terra NVIDIA repository :
dkms-nvidia # NVIDIA kernel modules via DKMS nvidia-driver-cuda # CUDA support libnvidia-fbc # Frame buffer capture libva-nvidia-driver # VA-API support nvidia-driver # Main driver nvidia-modprobe # Module loading nvidia-persistenced # Persistence daemon nvidia-settings # Configuration GUI nvidia-container-toolkit # Container support
Note: nvidia-container-toolkit is initially excluded, then installed separately to work around dependency issues.NVIDIA build patches For NVIDIA driver version 590.48.01, a kernel 6.19 compatibility patch is applied from CachyOS:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS/refs/heads/master/nvidia/nvidia-utils/kernel-6.19.patch
SELinux policy NVIDIA container SELinux policy is installed:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NVIDIA/dgx-selinux/master/bin/RHEL9/nvidia-container.pp
Flatpak Flathub repository is pre-configured:
Repository file: /usr/share/flatpak/remotes.d/flathub.flatpakrepo
Auto-installed on first boot via flatpak-preinstall.service
Pre-installation list: /usr/share/flatpak/preinstall.d/zirconium.preinstall
Package exclusions The following packages are explicitly excluded:
PackageKit* # Conflicts with manual package management
Removed documentation To reduce image size, documentation is removed for:
/usr/share/doc/niri /usr/share/doc/just