Desktop components

The components a MixOS desktop installs, generated from each component's declared install profiles. A component in more than one profile is listed on each page. Every component, with its kind and source, is in the component index; see also the server list. This page describes the current main branch of MixOS.

Core components

On every MixOS system.

  • mixos-mcp (cli): MCP stdio access to the native MixOS Bus.
  • monitord (service): How monitord samples a host's CPU, memory, disks, network and processes, keeps history in memory and SQLite, and answers read verbs on the Bus, so any node's load can be read from anywhere on the…

Desktop components

  • indexd (service): Local semantic search over the MixOS Bus, with an ssh bridge and an in-process CLI.
  • monitor (app): Monitor is the MixOS task manager, showing the processes and performance that monitord reports for this node or any node on the mesh, with End task and Kill for this node's processes.

Unclassified

Apps, services and command-line components that do not declare install profiles yet. They are listed on both this page and the server page until they do.

  • backdrop (app): The MixOS desktop background — drawn by its own program on the compositor's background layer, on every output, at native and fractional scale.
  • blobd (service): The node blob store: content-addressed bytes kept in mds, with owner pins, quotas and garbage collection. The MixOS port of blobd, with the store, the Bus citizen, the byte lane and the cross-node…
  • bridged (service): How bridged puts an external application with a line-delimited JSON control channel on the Bus, one instance per application, and what that exposes.
  • busviewer (app): BusViewer is the MixOS desktop app that lists the services and verbs on this node's Bus, shows each verb's description and the mesh peers, and calls one verb once with a JSON body.
  • ced (app): The MixOS Editor, a desktop text editor over the edit Bus service, where people and agents edit the same document at once and see each other's carets, selections and changes live.
  • compd (service): The MixOS Wayland compositor, which owns scanout, rendering, input and capture, and serves the comp Bus service with its workspaces, verbs, topics and props tree.
  • dopus (app): MixOS's twin-pane file manager — two folder trees side by side, Places and Properties sidebars, drag and drop between panes, menus and keys for every action, and a Bus surface for agents that reads…
  • editd (service): The edit service, which holds shared text buffers that people and agents edit together, with revision checks, per-origin undo, anchors, atomic save, external-change detection and recovery.
  • email (app)
  • hostd (service): How hostd answers questions about the host and carries out privileged host changes through closed, typed verbs behind standing grants, receipts and rollback, so agents never need sudo.
  • inputd (service): How inputd turns keys into Bus verbs below the compositor, keeps the user keys for the person, and holds its keyboard grab only while its own VT is active.
  • mesh-sign (cli): Signs and verifies the mesh inventory, the trust root of a MixOS mesh.
  • mix-shell (cli): The Mix shell library, holding the interactive line editor, the command classifier, the native-session bootstrap and the Bus citizen runtime that the mix binary runs.
  • mixtrayd (service)
  • noded (service): The MixOS Bus broker, which handles service registration, discovery, routing, subscriptions, authenticated local session grants and mesh peering between nodes.
  • notifyd (service): How notifyd keeps the desk's notifications, shows them as toasts and in the Notifications page, and tells an agent or app which button the human pressed.
  • portald (service): How portald serves the XDG Settings and ScreenCast portals on the session bus, where the appearance values and screen frames come from, and how applications and agents use them.
  • prefs (app): MixOS's preferences window — a sidebar of editors: Applications follows, installs, updates, rolls back and removes upstream releases; Appearance sets the session's colour scheme, style, mode,…
  • releasesd (service): How releasesd follows upstream application releases on GitHub and installs their Linux builds per user, verified, with rollback, from the command line or the Bus.
  • screenshot (app): MixOS's screenshot app — Print Screen for a region, Shift+Print for the screen, Alt+Print for a window; arrows, boxes, pens, highlighter, text, numbered markers, crop and redaction that stay…
  • settingsd (service): The headless desktop settings authority, the one writer for a session profile's settings, with durable receipts and retained change publication on the Bus.
  • system (cli): The system package builds the mix shell executable with optional noded, monitord, maild, webd and dnsd personalities selected by the name it is started under.
  • term (app): The MixOS terminal, with tabs, split panes and a GPU-drawn grid, driven by the session settings and fully scriptable over the Bus.

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