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

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

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

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

File::Mimeinfo can be used to determine the MIME type of a file. It tries to implement the Freedesktop specification for a shared MIME database.

This package also contains two related utilities:

• mimetype determines a file's MIME type;

• mimeopen opens files in an appropriate program according to their MIME type.

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

This package provides a backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal that allows using your preferred terminal file manager as file chooser in other applications.

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.

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 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.

Telepathy logger is a headless observer client that logs information received by the Telepathy framework. It features pluggable backends to log different sorts of messages in different formats.

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.

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.

RealtimeKit is a D-Bus system service that changes the scheduling policy of user processes and threads to SCHED_RR (i.e. realtime scheduling mode) on request. It is intended to be used as a secure mechanism to allow real-time scheduling to be used by normal user processes.

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.

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

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.

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.

GNU FreeIPMI is a collection of in-band and out-of-band IPMI software in accordance with the IPMI v1.5/2.0 specification. These programs provide a set of interfaces for platform management. Common functionality includes sensor monitoring, system event monitoring, power control and serial-over-LAN.

bidiv is a simple utility for converting logical-Hebrew input to visual-Hebrew output. This is useful for reading Hebrew mail messages, viewing Hebrew texts, etc. It was written for Hebrew but Arabic (or other BiDi languages) should work equally well.

GNU FriBidi is an implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm. This algorithm is used to properly display text in left-to-right or right-to-left ordering as necessary.

Filezilla client supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS), SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5, FTP-Proxy, IPv6 and others features such as bookmarks, drag and drop, filename filters, directory comparison and more.

This package provides some basic functionality to build high-performing, platform-independent programs.

Some of the highlights include:

• A type-safe, multi-threaded event system that's simple to use yet efficient.

• Timers for periodic events.

• A datetime class that not only tracks timestamp but also their accuracy, which simplifies dealing with timestamps originating from different sources.

• Simple process handling for spawning child processes with redirected input and output.