gnome-settings-daemon-41.0

Introduction to GNOME Settings Daemon

The GNOME Settings Daemon is responsible for setting various parameters of a GNOME Session and the applications that run under it.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.1 platform.

Package Information

GNOME Settings Daemon Dependencies

Required

alsa-lib-1.2.6.1, colord-1.4.6, Fontconfig-2.13.1, Gcr-3.40.0, GeoClue-2.6.0, geocode-glib-3.26.2, gnome-desktop-41.3, Little CMS-2.13.1, libcanberra-0.30, libgweather-40.0, libnotify-0.7.9, libwacom-2.1.0, PulseAudio-15.0, Systemd-250, and UPower-0.99.13

Recommended

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Note

Recommended dependencies are not strictly required for this package to build and function, but you may not get expected results at runtime if you don't install them.

Optional

gnome-session-41.3, Mutter-41.4, dbusmock-0.25.0, and umockdev-0.17.6

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-settings-daemon

Installation of GNOME Settings Daemon

First, fix building with recent versions of meson:

sed "/  policy,/d" -i plugins/{power,wacom}/meson.build

Install GNOME Settings Daemon by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. &&
ninja

To check the results, execute: ninja test. Note that you must have python-dbusmock installed in order for the tests to complete successfully. Some tests may fail depending on the init system in use.

Now, as the root user:

ninja install

Command Explanations

--buildtype=release: Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as the default may produce unoptimized binaries.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libgsd.so
Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/Xwayland-session.d, /usr/include/gnome-settings-daemon-41, /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-41, and /usr/share/gnome-settings-daemon

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