Control Center-2.6.1

Introduction to Control Center

The Control Center package contains the GNOME settings managers.

Package information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/control-center/2.6/control-center-2.6.1.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/control-center/2.6/control-center-2.6.1.tar.bz2
Download size: 3.9 MB
Estimated Disk space required: 115.1 MB
Estimated build time: 1.02 SBU

Control Center dependencies

Required

libxklavier-1.02, Metacity-2.8.0 and Nautilus-2.6.1

Optional

EsounD-0.2.34, ALSA-1.0.4, gst-plugins-0.8.1 and XScreenSaver

Installation of Control Center

Install Control Center by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0` \
    --libexecdir=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0`/sbin \
    --localstatedir=/var/lib --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome &&
make &&
make install

Command explanations

--libexecdir=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0`/sbin: This switch puts libexec files in $GNOME_PREFIX/sbin instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/libexec.

--localstatedir=/var/lib: This switch puts scrollkeeper files in /var/lib/scrollkeeper instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/var/scrollkeeper.

--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome: This switch puts configuration files in /etc/gnome instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/etc.

The Control Center package contains gnome-control-center, gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-background-properties, gnome-default-applications-properties, gnome-file-types-properties, gnome-font-properties, gnome-keybinding-properties, gnome-keyboard-properties, gnome-mouse-properties, gnome-network-preferences, gnome-sound-properties, gnome-theme-properties and gnome-ui-properties.