Introduction to GNOME Settings Daemon

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-9.0 platform.

Dependencies

Required:

• colord-1.4.4 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/general/colord.html)
• Fontconfig-2.13.1 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/general/fontconfig.html)
• GeoClue-2.5.3 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/basicnet/geoclue2.html)
• geocode-glib-3.26.1 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/gnome/geocode-glib.html)
• gnome-desktop-3.32.2 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/gnome/gnome-desktop.html)
• Little CMS-2.9 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/general/lcms2.html)
• libcanberra-0.30 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/multimedia/libcanberra.html)
• libgweather-3.32.2 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/gnome/libgweather.html)
• libnotify-0.7.8 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/x/libnotify.html)
• librsvg-2.44.14 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/general/librsvg.html)
• libwacom-0.29 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/general/libwacom.html)
• PulseAudio-12.2 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/multimedia/pulseaudio.html)
• Systemd-241 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/general/systemd.html)
• UPower-0.99.10 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/general/upower.html)
• Xorg Wacom Driver-0.37.0 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/x/x7driver.html#xorg-wacom-driver)

Recommended:

• ALSA-1.1.9 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/multimedia/alsa.html)
• Cups-2.2.12 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/pst/cups.html)
• NetworkManager-1.20.0 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/basicnet/networkmanager.html)
• NSS-3.45 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/postlfs/nss.html)
• Wayland-1.17.0 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/general/wayland.html)

Optional

• python-dbusmock (https://github.com/martinpitt/python-dbusmock)
• umockdev (https://github.com/martinpitt/umockdev)

Build

Install GNOME Settings Daemon by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc .. &&
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 in the "power" testsuite may fail depending on the init system in use.

Now, as the root user:

ninja install