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-11.0 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-settings-daemon/40/gnome-settings-daemon-40.0.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-settings-daemon/40/gnome-settings-daemon-40.0.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: b5cbe98f5d5fe430e402048d5817f875
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 29 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
alsa-lib-1.2.5.1, colord-1.4.5, Fontconfig-2.13.1, Gcr-3.40.0, GeoClue-2.5.7, geocode-glib-3.26.2, gnome-desktop-40.4, Little CMS-2.12, libcanberra-0.30, libgweather-40.0, libnotify-0.7.9, librsvg-2.50.7, libwacom-1.11, PulseAudio-15.0, elogind-246.10, UPower-0_99_13, and Xorg Wacom Driver-0.40.0
ALSA-1.2.5, Cups-2.3.3op2, NetworkManager-1.32.10, NSS-3.69, and Wayland-1.19.0
![[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.
Mutter-40.4, dbusmock-0.23.1, and umockdev-0.16.2
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/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 --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.
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