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.

Telepathy Mission Control 5 is an account manager and channel dispatcher for the Telepathy framework, allowing user interfaces and other clients to share connections to real-time communication services without conflicting.

PyXDG is a collection of implementations of freedesktop.org standards in Python.

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

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

xdg-user-dirs is a tool to help manage "well known" user directories, such as the desktop folder or the music folder. It also handles localization (i.e. translation) of the file names. Designed to be automatically run when a user logs in, xdg-user-dirs can also be run manually by a user.

Wayland-Protocols contains Wayland protocols that add functionality not available in the Wayland core protocol. Such protocols either add completely new functionality, or extend the functionality of some other protocol either in Wayland core, or some other protocol in wayland-protocols.

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.

A library to allow applications to export a menu, originally into the Unity menu bar. Based on KSNI, it also works in KDE and will fallback to generic Systray support if none of those are available.

iio-sensor-proxy is a daemon which passes IIO sensor data to D-Bus.

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

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 a straightforward implementation of the XDG Base Directory Specification.

Libmbim is a GLib-based library for talking to WWAN modems and devices which speak the Mobile Interface Broadband Model (MBIM) protocol.

This package provides an xdg-desktop-portal backend for Hyprland.

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.

This package provides wayland-info tool that can be used to check which Wayland protocols and versions are advertised by the Wayland compositor.

Displaying and dumping information on Direct Rendering Manager devices.

This package provides Wayland protocol extensions for Hyprland.

File::Basedir can be used to find directories and files as specified by the Freedesktop.org Base Directory Specification. This specifications gives a mechanism to locate directories for configuration, application data and cache data.

Waypipe is a proxy for Wayland clients, with the aim of supporting behavior like ssh -X.

libqrtr-glib is a glib-based library to use and manage the QRTR (Qualcomm IPC Router) bus.

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.