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 12.2 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-settings-daemon/46/gnome-settings-daemon-46.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 408d4fc18cf6971828ff957e052ce4dd
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 35 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
alsa-lib-1.2.12, colord-1.4.7, Fontconfig-2.15.0, Gcr-4.3.0, GeoClue-2.7.1, geocode-glib-3.26.4, gnome-desktop-44.1, Little CMS-2.16, libcanberra-0.30, libgweather-4.4.2, libnotify-0.8.3, libwacom-2.12.2, PulseAudio-17.0, and UPower-1.90.4
Cups-2.4.10, NetworkManager-1.48.8, nss-3.103, and Wayland-1.23.0
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
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-46.0, Mutter-46.4, dbusmock-0.32.1, umockdev-0.18.3, and Xvfb (for tests, from Xorg-Server-21.1.13 or Xwayland-24.1.2)
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.