diff --git a/conf/sway/config.d/autostart-utilities.conf b/conf/sway/config.d/autostart-utilities.conf
index 07b76e58..c8249a4d 100644
--- a/conf/sway/config.d/autostart-utilities.conf
+++ b/conf/sway/config.d/autostart-utilities.conf
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Autostarting common utilities to my environments
 
+# policykit agent for escalating permissions on-demand such as partition
+# management. LXDE one may not be the best on Wayland, but it's
+# reported working on Fedora mediawriter (FedoraQt/MediaWriter#223)
+exec --no-startup-id lxpolkit
+
 # htop system monitor
 exec --no-startup-id sleep 15 && $term --title=htop htop