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.

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.

Some projects rely on the sd-bus library for DBus support. However not all systems have systemd or elogind installed. This library provides just sd-bus (and the busctl utility).

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.

uchardet is an encoding detector library, which takes a sequence of bytes in an unknown character encoding without any additional information, and attempts to determine the encoding of the text. Returned encoding names are iconv-compatible.

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

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.

Wtype lets you simulate keyboard input and mouse activity, move and resize windows, etc.

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.

xdg-desktop-portal is a portal front-end service for Flatpak and possibly other desktop containment frameworks. It works by exposing a series of D-Bus interfaces known as portals under a well-known name (org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop) and object path (/org/freedesktop/portal/desktop).

The portal interfaces include APIs for file access, opening URIs, printing and others.

Libglib-testing is a test library providing test harnesses and mock classes which complement the classes provided by GLib. It is intended to be used by any project which uses GLib and which wants to write internal unit tests.

libxdg-basedir is a C library providing some functions to use with the freedesktop.org XDG Base Directory specification.

Salut is a link-local XMPP (XEP-0174) connection manager for the Telepathy framework, currently supporting presence and single-user chats with iChat interoperability, and multi-user chats and Tubes using the Clique protocol.

Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot process and that provides a graphical boot animation while the boot process happens in the background. You are not supposed to install this on your own, it is only useful with system integration.

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

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.

This package provides a Python wrapper around libevdev, taking advantage of libevdev's advanced event handling. Documentation is available at https://python-libevdev.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. libevdev makes it easy to:

• read and parse events from an input device;

• create a virtual input device and make it send events;

• duplicate an existing device and modify the event stream.

For information about libevdev, see: https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libevdev/.

This package provides xdg-desktop-portal-wlr. This project seeks to add support for the screenshot, screencast, and possibly remote-desktop xdg-desktop-portal interfaces for wlroots based compositors.

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

fprintd is a D-Bus daemon that offers functionality of libfprint, a library to access fingerprint readers, over the D-Bus interprocess communication bus. This daemon layer above libfprint solves problems related to applications simultaneously competing for fingerprint readers.

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

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.

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

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.