The shared-mime-info package contains the core database of common types and the update-mime-database command used to extend it. It requires glib2 to be installed for building the update command. Additionally, it uses intltool for translations, though this is only a dependency for the maintainers. This database is translated at Transifex.

poweralertd is a daemon that watches for UPower events and notifies the user using any notification daemon implementing org.freedesktop.Notifications.

Wev is a tool that opens a window, printing all events sent to a Wayland window, such as key presses. It is analogous to the X11 tool XEv.

Displaying and dumping information on Direct Rendering Manager devices.

This package provides a straightforward implementation of the XDG Base Directory Specification.

This package contains a few command line utilities for working with desktop entries:

desktop-file-validate

Validates a desktop file and prints warnings/errors about desktop entry specification violations.

desktop-file-install

Installs a desktop file to the applications directory, optionally munging it a bit in transit.

update-desktop-database

Updates the database containing a cache of MIME types handled by desktop files.

PackageKit provides a way of performing package management tasks, e.g. updating, removing and installing software. Through supporting many backends, PackageKit can perform these tasks using the appropriate package manager for the current system.

The xdg-utils package is a set of simple scripts that provide basic desktop integration functions in the framework of the freedesktop.org project.

This is a GTK convenience library for interacting with colord. It is useful for both applications which need colour management and applications that wish to perform colour calibration.

AppStream is a cross-distribution effort for enhancing the way we interact with the software repositories provided by distributions by standardizing software component metadata. It provides the foundation to build software-center applications, by providing metadata necessary for an application-centric view on package repositories. It additionally provides specifications for things like an unified software metadata database, screenshot services and various other things needed to create user-friendly application-centers for distributions.

The udiskie program is a udisks2 front-end that manages removable media such as CDs or flash drives from userspace.

Its features include:

• automount removable media,

• notifications,

• tray icon,

• command line tools for manual (un)mounting,

• LUKS encrypted devices,

• unlocking with keyfiles,

• loop devices (mounting ISO archives),

• password caching.

Gabble is a Jabber/XMPP connection manager for the Telepathy framework, currently supporting:

• single-user chats

• multi-user chats

• voice/video calling

• file transfer

with Jabber/XMPP interoperability.

Telepathy is a D-Bus framework for unifying real time communication, including instant messaging, voice calls and video calls. It abstracts differences between protocols to provide a unified interface for applications.

File::DesktopEntry parses .desktop files defined by the Freedesktop.org Desktop Entry specification. It can also run the applications define in those files.

cChardet is a character encoding detector, written in Python, that binds to the C library uchardet to increase performance.

The AccountService project provides a set of D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information and an implementation of these interfaces, based on the useradd, usermod and userdel commands.

ModemManager is a DBus-activated daemon which controls mobile broadband (2G/3G/4G) devices and connections. Whether built-in devices, USB dongles, bluetooth-paired telephones, or professional RS232/USB devices with external power supplies, ModemManager is able to prepare and configure the modems and setup connections with them.

Weston is the reference implementation of a Wayland compositor, and a useful compositor in its own right.

A Wayland compositor allows applications to render to a shared offscreen buffer using OpenGL ES. The compositor then culls the hidden parts and composes the final output. A Wayland compositor is essentially a multiplexer to the KMS/DRM Linux kernel devices.

Libinput is a library to handle input devices for display servers and other applications that need to directly deal with input devices.

This package provides C++ bindings for the Wayland display protocol.

Localed is a tiny daemon that can be used to control the system locale and keyboard mapping from user programs. It is used among other things by the GNOME Shell. The localectl command-line tool allows you to interact with localed. This package is extracted from the broader systemd package.

Libei provides a client and server implementation of the EI protocol for Wayland compositors.

This package provides a Hyprland implementation of wayland-scanner, in and for C++.

libportal provides GIO-style async APIs for most Flatpak portals.

Wayland is a project to define a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a library implementation of the protocol. The compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a wayland client itself. The clients can be traditional applications, X servers (rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers.