gnome-session-43.0

Installation of GNOME Session

When running GNOME under Wayland-1.21.0, environment settings are not imported for the user using the system profile. The Wayland developers are currently undecided on a standard method to provide system environment settings for user sessions. To work around this limitation, execute the following command to make gnome-session use a login shell:

sed 's@/bin/sh@/bin/sh -l@' -i gnome-session/gnome-session.in

Adapt meson.build so that gnome-session can build without systemd:

sed -i "/  systemd_dep/,+3d;/if enable_systemd/a \    systemd_userunitdir = '/tmp\'" meson.build

Install GNOME Session by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr           \
      --buildtype=release     \
      -Dsystemd_journal=false \
      .. &&
ninja

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

ninja install

Move the documentation to a versioned directory:

mv -v /usr/share/doc/gnome-session{,-43.0}

This package creates two Xorg based .desktop files in the /usr/share/xsessions/ directory. Only one is needed in a BLFS system, so prevent the extra file showing up as an option in a window manager. Also differentiate the X11 and Wayland versions of Gnome. As the root user:

mkdir -p /usr/share/xsessions/deprecated                                      &&
mv -v /usr/share/xsessions/gnome-xorg.desktop /usr/share/xsessions/deprecated &&
sed -i '/Name/s/$/ (X11)/' /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop

Now, as the root user, remove systemd units that are useless on SysV systems:

rm -rv /tmp/{*.d,*.target,*.service}