gnome-settings-daemon-46.0

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.

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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.

Package Information

GNOME Settings Daemon Dependencies

Required

alsa-lib-1.2.12, colord-1.4.7, Fontconfig-2.15.0, Gcr-4.3.0, GeoClue-2.7.2, geocode-glib-3.26.4, gnome-desktop-44.1, Little CMS-2.16, libcanberra-0.30, libgweather-4.4.4, libnotify-0.8.3, libwacom-2.13.0, PulseAudio-17.0, and UPower-1.90.6

Recommended

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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-46.0, Mutter-46.4, dbusmock-0.32.2, umockdev-0.18.4, and Xvfb (for tests, from Xorg-Server-21.1.13 or Xwayland-24.1.3)

Installation of GNOME Settings Daemon

Install GNOME Settings Daemon by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson setup --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-46, /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-46, and /usr/share/gnome-settings-daemon