Gsettings-desktop-schemas contains a collection of GSettings schemas for settings shared by various components of the GNOME desktop.

Jsonrpc-GLib is a library to communicate with JSON-RPC based peers in either a synchronous or asynchronous fashion. It also allows communicating using the GVariant serialization format instead of JSON when both peers support it. You might want that when communicating on a single host to avoid parser overhead and memory-allocator fragmentation.

Connections allows the user to connect to different real or virtual machines, using VNC or RDP.

libratbag provides ratbagd, a DBus daemon to configure input devices, mainly gaming mice. The daemon provides a generic way to access the various features exposed by these mice and abstracts away hardware-specific and kernel-specific quirks. There is also the ratbagctl command line interface for configuring devices.

libratbag currently supports devices from Logitech, Etekcity, GSkill, Roccat, Steelseries.

The ratbagd DBus service can be enabled by adding the following service to your operating-system definition:

(simple-service 'ratbagd dbus-root-service-type (list libratbag))

Gamin is a file and directory monitoring system defined to be a subset of the FAM (File Alteration Monitor) system. This is a service provided by a library which detects when a file or a directory has been modified.

GNOME Display Manager is a system service that is responsible for providing graphical log-ins and managing local and remote displays.

The aim of the handy library is to help with developing user interfaces for mobile devices using GTK+. It provides responsive GTK+ widgets for usage on small and big screens.

Apostrophe is a GTK+ based distraction-free Markdown editor. It uses pandoc as back-end for parsing Markdown.

Color Picker is a simple color chooser written in GTK3. It supports both X and Wayland display servers.

GNOME Software allows you to find and install new applications and system extensions and remove existing installed applications.

Libcloudproviders is a DBus API that allows cloud storage sync clients to expose their services. Clients such as file managers and desktop environments can then provide integrated access to the cloud providers services.

Tepl is a library that eases the development of GtkSourceView-based text editors and IDEs.

Libglade is a library that provides interfaces for loading graphical interfaces described in glade files and for accessing the widgets built in the loading process.

This package provides a library to handle resource discovery and announcement over SSDP and a debugging tool, gssdp-device-sniffer.

Grilo is a framework focused on making media discovery and browsing easy for application developers.

GNU Miscfiles is a collection of common data files. They include, for example, country abbreviations, names and capital cities; currency abbreviations and names; a Best Current Practices index; a map of the ASCII character set; a list of three-letter airport codes; and an English word list.

The GNU Coding Standards were written by Richard Stallman and other GNU Project volunteers. Their purpose is to make the GNU system clean, consistent, and easy to install.

The information for maintainers of GNU software has guidelines and advice for someone who is the maintainer of a GNU program on behalf of the GNU Project.

This program is designed to make it easy to reconstruct difficult passwords when they are needed while limiting the risk of attack. The user of this program inputs a self-defined transformation of a web site URL and obtains the password and user name hint for that web site.

GnuCash is personal and professional financial-accounting software. It can be used to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses, based on the double-entry accounting practice. It includes support for QIF/OFX/HBCI import and transaction matching. It also automates several tasks, such as financial calculations or scheduled transactions.

To make the GnuCash documentation available, its doc output must be installed as well as Yelp, the Gnome help browser.

This package provides a helper library for networking and security applications and libraries. It is used by AqBanking.

AqBanking is a modular and generic interface to online banking tasks, financial file formats (import/export) and bank/country/currency information. AqBanking uses backend plugins to actually perform the online tasks. HBCI, OFX DirectConnect, YellowNet, GeldKarte, and DTAUS discs are currently supported. AqBanking is used by GnuCash, KMyMoney, and QBankManager.

GNU libextractor is a library for extracting metadata from files. It supports a very large number of file formats, including audio files, document files, and archive files. Each file format is implemented as a plugin, so new formats can be added easily. The package also contains a command-line tool to extract metadata from a file and print the results.

GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking. The high-level goal is to provide a strong foundation of free software for a global, distributed network that provides security and privacy. GNUnet in that sense aims to replace the current internet protocol stack. Along with an application for secure publication of files, it has grown to include all kinds of basic applications for the foundation of a GNU internet.

For reliable NAT traversal, also install the miniupnpc package.

GNU libmicrohttpd is a small, embeddable HTTP server implemented as a C library. It makes it easy to run an HTTP server as part of another application. The library is fully HTTP 1.1 compliant. It can listen on multiple ports, supports four different threading models, and supports IPv6. It also features security features such as basic and digest authentication and support for SSL3 and TLS.