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.

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.

UDisks provides interfaces to enumerate and perform operations on disks and storage devices. Any application (including unprivileged ones) can access the udisksd(8) daemon via the name org.freedesktop.UDisks2 on the system message bus.

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.

Elogind is the systemd project's "logind" service, extracted out as a separate project. Elogind integrates with PAM to provide the org.freedesktop.login1 interface over the system bus, allowing other parts of a the system to know what users are logged in, and where.

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.

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.

This library supports a subset of the ATA S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) functionality.

This package provides a backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal which uses GTK+ and various pieces of GNOME infrastructure, such as the org.gnome.Shell.Screenshot or org.gnome.SessionManager D-Bus interfaces.

This package is a partial implementation of the systemd-hostnamed daemon. It provides the org.freedesktop.hostname1 D-Bus interface, which helps applications like GNOME Settings retrieve and modify the system’s hostname, as well as set a pretty hostname for display.

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

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

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 Wayland protocol extensions for Hyprland.

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.

libdecor is a library that can help Wayland clients draw window decorations for them. It aims to provide multiple backends that implements the decoration drawing.

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.

power-profiles-daemon offers to modify system behaviour based upon user-selected power profiles. There are 3 different power profiles, a "balanced" default mode, a "power-saver" mode, as well as a "performance" mode. The first 2 of those are available on every system. The "performance" mode is only available on select systems and is implemented by different "drivers" based on the system or systems it targets. In addition to those 2 or 3 modes (depending on the system), "actions" can be hooked up to change the behaviour of a particular device. For example, this can be used to disable the fast-charging for some USB devices when in power-saver mode.

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.

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.

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

PackageKit provides a way of performing package management tasks, e.g. updating, removing and installing software. Through supporting many backends, PackageKit can perform these tasks using the appropriate package manager for the current system.

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.

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