Packages

BLFS 'x7font' page -- font-util plus 8 core bitmap/Type1 font packages, bundled into one LinuxDoors package the same way x7lib bundles its libraries. font-util is built and applied to the live chroot first since the remaining packages' ./configure needs its macros/mkfontscale. Provides font-util-1.4.2 which xorg-server itself requires.

BLFS 'x7lib' page -- 31 small X11 libraries bundled into one LinuxDoors package (BLFS itself presents them as one build-loop unit, not separate pages). build.sh adapts BLFS's own documented loop script (with its 3 configure-flag exceptions for libXfont2/libXt/libXpm and its 2 meson-based exceptions for libpciaccess/libxkbfile) to install into $PKG_DESTDIR instead of live root, dropping the sudo/interactive md5-check parts our own source_fetch.py already handles.

Linux Mint cross-DE library (XApp*). Base dep of cinnamon / nemo / cinnamon-screensaver / cinnamon-settings-daemon. Linux Mint upstream, branch 3.2-maintenance @ commit 58ffe8e1e383 (GitHub branch snapshot -- Mint doesn't publish release tarballs; SHA recorded for reproducibility). Cinnamon 6.4 line pairs with this project's mozjs 128 via cjs 128.1. ship_in_iso=false (Packages page / Package Manager only, like KDE Plasma & LXQt). Built on .101, meson --libdir=lib for the non-multiarch layout.

BLFS. Header-only bitmap data, no programs/libraries -- only creates $XORG_PREFIX/include/X11/bitmaps.

BLFS. XML-XCB protocol descriptions used by libxcb's code generator. Skips the optional make check.

xcb-util-cursor -- xcb helper library. KWin_x11 / kwindowsystem X11 backend need these. ship_in_iso=false -- KDE Plasma is a Packages-page / Package Manager install, deliberately kept off linuxdoors.iso (XFCE + MATE are the shipped desktops). Built on .101 against the existing KF6 6.29 + Qt6 (/opt/qt6-full) stack from the Kdenlive work.

xcb-util-image -- xcb helper library. KWin_x11 / kwindowsystem X11 backend need these. ship_in_iso=false -- KDE Plasma is a Packages-page / Package Manager install, deliberately kept off linuxdoors.iso (XFCE + MATE are the shipped desktops). Built on .101 against the existing KF6 6.29 + Qt6 (/opt/qt6-full) stack from the Kdenlive work.

BLFS 'xcb-utilities' page bundle -- 6 small xcb-util-* extension libraries, same one-page/one-loop pattern as x7lib. Applies each to the live chroot filesystem immediately after its own install (same reason as x7lib: later packages in the loop may need earlier ones visible right away).

xcb-util-keysyms -- xcb helper library. KWin_x11 / kwindowsystem X11 backend need these. ship_in_iso=false -- KDE Plasma is a Packages-page / Package Manager install, deliberately kept off linuxdoors.iso (XFCE + MATE are the shipped desktops). Built on .101 against the existing KF6 6.29 + Qt6 (/opt/qt6-full) stack from the Kdenlive work.

xcb-util-renderutil -- xcb helper library. KWin_x11 / kwindowsystem X11 backend need these. ship_in_iso=false -- KDE Plasma is a Packages-page / Package Manager install, deliberately kept off linuxdoors.iso (XFCE + MATE are the shipped desktops). Built on .101 against the existing KF6 6.29 + Qt6 (/opt/qt6-full) stack from the Kdenlive work.

xcb-util-wm -- xcb helper library. KWin_x11 / kwindowsystem X11 backend need these. ship_in_iso=false -- KDE Plasma is a Packages-page / Package Manager install, deliberately kept off linuxdoors.iso (XFCE + MATE are the shipped desktops). Built on .101 against the existing KF6 6.29 + Qt6 (/opt/qt6-full) stack from the Kdenlive work.

BLFS. Provides the redglass/whiteglass animated cursor themes, installed to /usr/share/icons. Configure hard-requires xcursorgen (from x7app) to regenerate the cursors -- depends on x7app, not just x7lib.

freedesktop.org xdg-user-dirs -- manages the well-known ~/Desktop, ~/Downloads, ~/Documents etc. paths (xdg-user-dirs-update / xdg-user-dir). lxqt-session's CMake hard-requires the xdg-user-dirs-update executable (lxqt2-build-tools FindXdgUserDirs.cmake). Tiny C autotools package, no deps. LXQt 2.4 desktop, ship_in_iso=false.

X11 automation tool + libxdo. cinnamon-screensaver hard-requires libxdo (meson C library check). Plain Makefile (no configure); PREFIX=/usr. Cinnamon 6.4 desktop, ship_in_iso=false.

BLFS XFCE. Application launcher/search (Alt+F2 style). No test suite.

BLFS XFCE. Provides xdt-autogen/xdt-csource, the build-time macros most other XFCE components' configure scripts need. Skips the optional make check.

BLFS apps. The notification daemon libnotify's messages actually need a listener for -- last package of the minimal-XFCE scope (X11 core + Mesa, GTK3, lightdm, hicolor+lxde icons, XFCE4 core + xfce4-terminal + xfce4-notifyd).

BLFS XFCE. The taskbar/panel. libdbusmenu optional dep skipped. No test suite.

BLFS XFCE. The session manager -- provides /usr/bin/xfce4-session and the 'xfce.desktop' xsession entry lightdm's greeter lists. --disable-legacy-sm (no X11R6 session-management fallback needed). xfce4-screensaver/polkit-gnome optional deps skipped. desktop-file-utils already built.

BLFS XFCE. Settings daemon + dialogs (appearance, display, keyboard, mouse, etc). Its required-runtime icon theme is now satisfied by lxde-icon-theme. libcanberra/colord/UPower optional deps skipped.

BLFS apps. Terminal emulator, part of the minimal-XFCE scope. Applies BLFS's required sed to guard an optional gtk-layer-shell code path (we don't build gtk-layer-shell, this just keeps it compiling without it).

BLFS XFCE. Configuration storage system (like dconf/gsettings) used by all XFCE components. No test suite.

BLFS XFCE. Desktop background/icons manager -- required at runtime by xfce4-session. Real bug found live (via the Phase 1.5 installer boot test): xfdesktop's own ./configure was actually run before thunar existed in this project's real build history (depends previously only listed xfce4-panel, not thunar), so it silently detected no thunarx-3/libexo-2 and built without file-icon support -- no error, no warning, exactly the same silent-skip class already hit for ncurses/pkg-config, ninja, and the gdk-pixbuf/harfbuzz introspection cascade. Symptom: xfdesktop logged 'CRITICAL: Unusable XfceDesktopIconStyle: 2. Unable to display desktop icons.' when /desktop-icons/style was set to 2 (File/Directory Icons), even though thunarx-3.pc/exo-2.pc/libthunarx-3.so were all genuinely present on the live system by then. Fixed by adding thunar to depends (documents the real ordering requirement) and rebuilding xfdesktop after thunar. That rebuild alone was still not enough -- xfdesktop's actual XFCE_DESKTOP_ICON_STYLE_FILES case is gated behind a SEPARATE compile-time macro, ENABLE_FILE_ICONS, itself gated by configure.ac on 'yaml-0.1 >= 0.2.5' via pkg-config (not thunarx, which only gates the unrelated right-click desktop-menu extension feature) -- confirmed directly in configure.ac and config.log ('dependencies missing: yaml-0.1 >= 0.2.5'). See the new packages/libyaml package. xfdesktop now depends on libyaml too and must be rebuilt again after it.