How To Install gnome-settings-daemon on CentOS 8

gnome-settings-daemon is The daemon sharing settings from GNOME to GTK+/KDE applications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-settings-daemon on CentOS 8.

What is `gnome-settings-daemon`

A daemon to share settings from GNOME to other applications. It also handles global keybindings, as well as a number of desktop-wide settings.

We can use yum or dnf to install gnome-settings-daemon on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnome-settings-daemon.

Install gnome-settings-daemon on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install gnome-settings-daemon using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnome-settings-daemon

Install gnome-settings-daemon on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install gnome-settings-daemon using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-settings-daemon

How To Uninstall gnome-settings-daemon on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the gnome-settings-daemon package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gnome-settings-daemon

gnome-settings-daemon Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.A11ySettings.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Account.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Clipboard.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Datetime.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Housekeeping.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Keyboard.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Mouse.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Power.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.PrintNotifications.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Rfkill.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.ScreensaverProxy.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Sharing.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Smartcard.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Sound.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Wacom.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XSettings.desktop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/eabcd3729ed4dccf6d286a5d3d98ad77fd5b87
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/4d0c779528ee84b6bed3a0463ed58d88885e7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/c69e3cd82095c041674167d24d9c69950bb822
/usr/lib/.build-id/60
/usr/lib/.build-id/60/a14494c73e7147fe49af4a6128bd0035435f41
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/d48f0a48a36c8705a0a4e8e7c73f0acdcea2d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/d0dd124b5b61459148deee77cd664efc1699d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/c7f5872bff13839c5c4f7ff07c41689b32f258
/usr/lib/.build-id/71
/usr/lib/.build-id/71/7e1c3ab3e8beb0547d4e33117e0e15afba175a
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/0a7618242ab5d9431c9206025f89746732a6dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/63e7eb798ec075179b1c3c8780c137e6f272e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4/2359cbc7eee7eab673f186540747c201d5ecd7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/2a0248213e888f1db920b76e0ff5f68a3ba6d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/17670dda96feec7274b751e0b4ffc0e7f33b09
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd/7be1ae67455b7587431ca9eebc5a6ed1fb75fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/3de4ad0c2a2eadec1022f2a92bb995f88ba709
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce/d135517a1033cd326df6252d85431d4ca22f5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/c32aa013fb154b0e0ee8f66b68d47b941ed55d
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3/69d2fd92167d7367c018aaa0bae153da89759d
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/6beda57f1c0da99ee0a939811071e238618b01
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1/c95f82814cd29b6cb920d1db7d675446f045d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3/080eada31bfeac502ecb19d59951fbfd6cc34a
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/ba2037b19a1c7a7415e6956da64c9515d02009
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5/b917dcf699e2719a222d42f7e3504d4e2fbfb4
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/a1d59e95148549e90081986bc49948d15fcb89
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/95077cc71b94b4a4901315490065b9a9f4fdff
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61-gnome-settings-daemon-rfkill.rules
/usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/libgsd.so
/usr/libexec/gsd-a11y-settings
/usr/libexec/gsd-account
/usr/libexec/gsd-backlight-helper
/usr/libexec/gsd-clipboard
/usr/libexec/gsd-color
/usr/libexec/gsd-datetime
/usr/libexec/gsd-dummy
/usr/libexec/gsd-housekeeping
/usr/libexec/gsd-keyboard
/usr/libexec/gsd-locate-pointer
/usr/libexec/gsd-media-keys
/usr/libexec/gsd-mouse
/usr/libexec/gsd-power
/usr/libexec/gsd-print-notifications
/usr/libexec/gsd-printer
/usr/libexec/gsd-rfkill
/usr/libexec/gsd-screensaver-proxy
/usr/libexec/gsd-sharing
/usr/libexec/gsd-smartcard
/usr/libexec/gsd-sound
/usr/libexec/gsd-wacom
/usr/libexec/gsd-wacom-led-helper
/usr/libexec/gsd-wacom-oled-helper
/usr/libexec/gsd-xsettings
/usr/share/GConf/gsettings/gnome-settings-daemon.convert
/usr/share/doc/gnome-settings-daemon
/usr/share/doc/gnome-settings-daemon/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gnome-settings-daemon/NEWS
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.settings-daemon.enums.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.wacom.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.account.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.color.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.housekeeping.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power.gschema.override
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.sharing.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings.gschema.xml
/usr/share/gnome-settings-daemon
/usr/share/gnome-settings-daemon/datetime
/usr/share/gnome-settings-daemon/datetime/backward
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-settings-daemon
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-settings-daemon/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/crh/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@shaw/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/mg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/nso/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/locale/zu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-settings-daemon.mo
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.wacom.policy

References

gnome-settings-daemon website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-settings-daemon on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.