GNOME-SETTINGS-DAE(1) User Commands GNOME-SETTINGS-DAE(1)NAMEgnome-settings-daemon - GNOME settings daemon
SYNOPSISgnome-settings-daemon [OPTION...]
DESCRIPTIONgnome-settings-daemon provides many session-wide services and functions
that require a long-running process. Among the services implemented by
gnome-settings-daemon are an XSettings manager, which provides theming,
font and other settings to GTK+ applications, and a clipboard manager,
which preserves clipboard contents when an application exits. Many user
interface elements of gnome-shell and gnome-control-center rely on
gnome-settings-daemon for their functionality.
The internal architecture of gnome-settings-daemon consists of a number
of plugins, which provide functionality such as printer notifications,
software update monitoring, background changing, etc. For debugging
purposes, these plugins can be individually disabled by changing the
gsettings key org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.plugin-name.active,
where plugin-name is the name of the plugin. To see a list of all
plugins, use the command
gsettings list-children org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins
gnome-settings-daemon takes the name org.gnome.SettingsDaemon on the
session bus to ensure that only one instance is running. Some plugins
export objects under this name to make their functionality available to
other applications. The interfaces of these objects should generally be
considered private and unstable.
gnome-settings-daemon is a required component of the GNOME desktop,
i.e. it is listed in the RequiredComponents field of
/usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome.session. It is started in the
initialization phase of the session, and gnome-session will restart it
if it crashes.
OPTIONS-h, --help
Prints a short help text and exits.
--debug
Enables debugging code.
--timed-exit
Exits after a timeout (30 seconds) for debugging.
FILES
/usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome.session
GNOME session definition file where gnome-settings-daemon is listed
as a required component.
/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-settings-daemon.desktop
Autostart file for gnome-settings-daemon, where its autostart phase
is set.
SEE ALSOgnome-shell(1), gnome-control-center(1), gnome-session(1)GNOMEGNOME-SETTINGS-DAE(1)