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| author | Andrew Patterson <andrewpatt7@gmail.com> | 2023-04-12 23:40:59 -0400 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2023-05-11 16:38:27 +0200 |
| commit | 8d442e8a53b8ef3727252425afe2cfb922f51368 (patch) | |
| tree | a0ed31d5ccd6b309ee494b635cfdda182fbbc5f6 /doc | |
| parent | ef0aa7ff8b54041ae6718c0d77c1de69a3175231 (diff) | |
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gnu: home: services: fontutils: Add support for SXML fragments.
* gnu/home/services/fontutils.scm (add-fontconfig-config-file): Add
support for adding arbitrary SXML configuration into fonts.conf;
* doc/guix.texi (Fonts Services): Update the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index ef2b78baeb..27fc3b1689 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -43084,8 +43084,10 @@ library is used by many applications to access fonts on the system. @defvar home-fontconfig-service-type This is the service type for generating configurations for Fontconfig. -Its associated value is a list of strings (or gexps) pointing to fonts -locations. +Its associated value is a list of either strings (or gexps) pointing to +fonts locations, or SXML (@pxref{SXML,,, guile, GNU Guile Reference +Manual}) fragments to be converted into XML and put inside the main +@code{fontconfig} node. Generally, it is better to extend this service than to directly configure it, as its default value is the default Guix Home's profile @@ -43093,13 +43095,17 @@ font installation path (@file{~/.guix-home/profile/share/fonts}). If you configure this service directly, be sure to include the above directory. -A typical extension for adding an additional font directory might look -like this: +A typical extension for adding an additional font directory and setting +a font as the default monospace font might look like this: @lisp (simple-service 'additional-fonts-service home-fontconfig-service-type - (list "~/.nix-profile/share/fonts")) + (list "~/.nix-profile/share/fonts" + '(alias + (family "monospace") + (prefer + (family "Liberation Mono"))))) @end lisp @end defvar |