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 12.3 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-settings-daemon/47/gnome-settings-daemon-47.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 39babcea9c9eb5fd7809cbc685cd282c
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 33 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (using parallelism=4, add 0.5 SBU for tests)
alsa-lib-1.2.13, Fontconfig-2.16.0, Gcr-4.3.1, GeoClue-2.7.2, geocode-glib-3.26.4, gnome-desktop-44.1, libcanberra-0.30, libgweather-4.4.4, libnotify-0.8.3, libwacom-2.14.0, PulseAudio-17.0, and UPower-1.90.7
colord-1.4.7, Cups-2.4.11, NetworkManager-1.50.0, nss-3.108, and Wayland-1.23.0
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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-47.0.1, Mutter-47.5, dbusmock-0.34.2, umockdev-0.19.1, and Xvfb (for tests, from Xorg-Server-21.1.16 or Xwayland-24.1.6)
Next, fix libelogind detection for tests:
sed -e 's/libsystemd/libelogind/' \
-i plugins/power/test.py
Next, fix backlight functionality in gnome-control-center:
sed -e 's/(backlight->logind_proxy)/(0)/' \
-i plugins/power/gsd-backlight.c
Install GNOME Settings Daemon by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson setup --prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-D systemd=false \
.. &&
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.