Snixembed is a program to proxy StatusNotifierItems as XEmbedded systemtray-spec icons. This allows programs that only support the newer StatusNotifierItem to have the older XEmbedded systemtray support. While snixembed works fine with most setups, some bars and DEs provide their own optional SNI support, which should be preferred when available.

Currently supported:

• icons (by pixmap and by freedesktop name)

• activation on left mouse button

• context menu on right mouse button (Menu dbusmenu or ContextMenu)

• tooltips (on hover, all markup except hyperlinks)

• limited AppIndicator support as a fallback

This package contains a number of commandline utilities for use inside Flatpak sandboxes and other containers, like guix shell --container. They work by talking to portals. Currently, there is flatpak-spawn for running commands in sandboxes as well as xdg-open and xdg-email, which are compatible with the well-known scripts of the same name.

This package provides Wayland protocol extensions for Hyprland.

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

MalContent implements parental controls support which can be used by applications to filter or limit the access of child accounts to inappropriate content.

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.

libfprint is a library designed to make it easy for application developers to add support for consumer fingerprint readers to their software.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Idle is an IRC connection manager for the Telepathy framework. This package enables usage of IRC channels and private messages in Telepathy instant messaging clients such as Empathy, GNOME Shell or KDE Telepathy.

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.

Exempi is an implementation of the Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP), which enables embedding metadata in PDF and image formats.

This package provides Wayland protocols designed for use in wlroots (and other compositors).

A set of symbols and convenience functions for Ayatana indicators.

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.

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.

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.