gnome-control-center-40.0

Introduction to GNOME Control Center

The GNOME Control Center package contains the GNOME settings manager.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.0 platform.

Package Information

GNOME Control Center Dependencies

Required

AccountsService-0.6.55, clutter-gtk-1.8.4, colord-gtk-0.2.0, gnome-online-accounts-3.40.0, gnome-settings-daemon-40.0.1, Grilo-0.3.13, gsound-1.0.3, libgtop-2.40.0, libpwquality-1.4.4, MIT Kerberos V5-1.19.2, shared-mime-info-2.1, and UDisks-2.9.3

Recommended

Optional

dbusmock-0.23.1 (for tests)

Recommended (Runtime)

Optional Runtime Dependencies

cups-pk-helper-0.2.6 (Printers panel), gnome-color-manager-3.36.0 (Color panel), and sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8 (Additional Sound Effects in Sound panel)

[Note]

Note

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.

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

Installation of GNOME Control Center

Install GNOME Control Center by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

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

To test the results, issue: ninja test. Note that you must have python-dbusmock module installed in order for the tests to complete successfully.

Now, as the root user:

ninja install

Command Explanations

--buildtype=release: Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as the default may produce unoptimized binaries.

-Dcheese=false: Use this switch if you have not installed recommended dependency Cheese.

-Dibus=false: Use this switch if you have not installed recommended dependency IBus.

Contents

Installed Programs: gnome-control-center
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/share/gnome-control-center, /usr/share/pixmaps/faces, and /usr/share/sounds/gnome

Short Descriptions

gnome-control-center

is a graphical user interface used to configure various aspects of GNOME

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