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 12.1 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-settings-daemon/45/gnome-settings-daemon-45.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 61c2d2eb639e6eae775e4330c0dc47fe
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 29 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
Optional patch (required for running the test suite): https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/gnome-settings-daemon-45.1-testsuite_fix-1.patch
alsa-lib-1.2.11, colord-1.4.7, Fontconfig-2.15.0, Gcr-4.2.0, GeoClue-2.7.1, geocode-glib-3.26.4, gnome-desktop-44.0, Little CMS-2.14, libcanberra-0.30, libgweather-4.4.0, libnotify-0.8.3, libwacom-2.10.0, PulseAudio-17.0, and UPower-1.90.2
ALSA, Cups-2.4.7, NetworkManager-1.44.2, nss-3.98, and Wayland-1.22.0
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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.
gnome-session-45.0, Mutter-45.4, dbusmock-0.30.2, umockdev-0.17.18, and Xvfb (for tests, from Xorg-Server-21.1.11 or Xwayland-23.2.4)
If running the test suite, apply a patch to fix test timeouts with python-dbusmock 0.30.0 or later:
patch -Np1 -i ../gnome-settings-daemon-45.1-testsuite_fix-1.patch
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
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.