The GNOME Session package contains the GNOME session manager.
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-session/43/gnome-session-43.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-session/43/gnome-session-43.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 02ae90bc41fd06e780169b760fb55670
Download size: 476 KB
Estimated disk space required: 12 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU
elogind-246.10, gnome-desktop-43.1, JSON-GLib-1.6.6, Mesa-22.3.5, and UPower-1.90.0
xmlto-0.0.28, and libxslt-1.1.37 with docbook-xml-4.5 and docbook-xsl-nons-1.79.2 (to build the documentation)
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/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}
Now, as the root
user, remove
systemd units that are useless on SysV systems:
rm -rv /tmp/{*.d,*.target,*.service}
--buildtype=release
:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.