The GNOME Settings Daemon is responsible for setting various parameters of a GNOME Session and the applications that run under it.
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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-settings-daemon/45/gnome-settings-daemon-45.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 42114b1572f903835dbcdd4d87ea03c8
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 31 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
alsa-lib-1.2.10, colord-1.4.6, Fontconfig-2.14.2, Gcr-4.1.0, 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-2.9.0, PulseAudio-16.1, and UPower-1.90.2
ALSA-1.2.7, Cups-2.4.7, NetworkManager-1.44.2, nss-3.94, and Wayland-1.22.0
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-45.1, dbusmock-0.29.1, umockdev-0.17.18, and Xvfb (for tests, from Xorg-Server-21.1.9 or Xwayland-23.2.2)
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.