gapplication

can be used to start applications and to send messages to already-running instances of other applications

gdbus

is a simple tool used for working with D-Bus objects

gdbus-codegen

is used to generate code and/or documentation for one or more D-Bus interfaces

gio

is a utility that makes many GIO features available from the command line

gio-querymodules

is used to create a giomodule.cache file in the listed directories. This file lists the implemented extension points for each module that has been found

glib-compile-resources

is used to read the resource description from a file and the files that it references to create a binary resource bundle that is suitable for use with the GResource API

glib-compile-schemas

is used to compile all the GSettings XML schema files in a directory into a binary file with the name gschemas.compiled that can be used by GSettings

glib-genmarshal

is a C code marshaller generation utility for GLib closures

glib-gettextize

is a variant of the gettext internationalization utility

glib-mkenums

is a C language enum description generation utility

gobject-query

is a small utility that draws a tree of types

gresource

offers a simple command line interface to GResource

gsettings

offers a simple command line interface to GSettings

gtester

is a test running utility

gtester-report

is a test report formatting utility

GLib libraries

contain low-level core libraries for the GIMP Toolkit