gnome-settings-daemon-40.0

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-10.1 platform.

Package Information

GNOME Settings Daemon Dependencies

Required

colord-1.4.5, Fontconfig-2.13.1, Gcr-3.40.0, GeoClue-2.5.7, geocode-glib-3.26.2, gnome-desktop-40.0, Little CMS-2.12, libcanberra-0.30, libgweather-40.0, libnotify-0.7.9, librsvg-2.50.3, libwacom-1.9, PulseAudio-14.2, elogind-246.10, UPower-0.99.11, and Xorg Wacom Driver-0.40.0

Recommended

[Note]

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.

Recommended (Runtime)

Optional

Mutter-40.0, dbusmock-0.23.0, and umockdev-0.15.4

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

Installation of GNOME Settings Daemon

First, 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 --prefix=/usr -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

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libgsd.so
Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/Xwayland-session.d, /usr/include/gnome-settings-daemon-40, /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-40, and /usr/share/gnome-settings-daemon

Last updated on 2021-04-08 01:16:54 -0500