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 12.0 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-settings-daemon/44/gnome-settings-daemon-44.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-settings-daemon/44/gnome-settings-daemon-44.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 5539036fdc10b9f250890b725fdbfb05
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 38 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
alsa-lib-1.2.9, colord-1.4.6, Fontconfig-2.14.2, Gcr-4.1.0, GeoClue-2.7.0, geocode-glib-3.26.4, gnome-desktop-44.0, Little CMS-2.14, libcanberra-0.30, libgweather-4.2.0, libnotify-0.8.2, libwacom-2.7.0, PulseAudio-16.1, and UPower-1.90.2
ALSA-1.2.7, Cups-2.4.6, NetworkManager-1.44.0, nss-3.92, and Wayland-1.22.0
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
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.
gnome-session-44.0, Mutter-44.3, dbusmock-0.29.1, umockdev-0.17.18, and Xvfb (for tests, from Xorg-Server-21.1.8 or Xwayland-23.2.0)
Next, fix libelogind detection for tests:
sed -e 's/libsystemd/libelogind/' \
-i plugins/power/test.py
Next, fix backlight functionality in gnome-control-center:
sed -e 's/(backlight->logind_proxy)/(0)/' \
-i plugins/power/gsd-backlight.c
Install GNOME Settings Daemon by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson setup --prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-Dsystemd=false \
.. &&
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
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.