Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 11.2

Chapter 34. GNOME Applications

gnome-terminal-3.44.1

Introduction to GNOME Terminal

The GNOME Terminal package contains the terminal emulator for GNOME Desktop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.2 platform.

Package Information

GNOME Terminal Dependencies

Required

DConf-0.40.0, gsettings-desktop-schemas-42.0, itstool-2.0.7, pcre2-10.40, and VTE-0.68.0

Recommended

gnome-shell-42.4 and Nautilus-42.2

Optional

desktop-file-utils-0.26, and appstream-glib

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-terminal

Installation of GNOME Terminal

First, fix some deprecated schema entries: 

sed -i -r 's:"(/system):"/org/gnome\1:g' src/external.gschema.xml

Install GNOME Terminal by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd   build &&

meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. &&
ninja

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install &&
rm -v /usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-terminal-server.service
[Note]

Note

To run GNOME Terminal, the environment variable LANG must be set to a UTF-8 locale prior to starting the graphical environment.

Command Explanations

-Dsearch_provider=false: This switch disables the “search gnome-shell” provider. Use this option if you do not have gnome-shell installed.

-Dnautilus_extension=false: This switch disables a dependency on the nautilus file manager. Use this option if you do not have Nautilus installed.

Contents

Installed Program: gnome-terminal
Installed Libraries: /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libterminal-nautilus.so (Nautilus Extension)
Installed Directories: /usr/{lib,share/help/*}/gnome-terminal

Short Descriptions

gnome-terminal

is the GNOME Terminal Emulator