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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index a58ca4b4a7..af74f7a636 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -23654,6 +23654,34 @@ current system. The number of seconds to wait for keyboard input before booting. Set to 0 to boot immediately, and to -1 to wait indefinitely. +@cindex keyboard layout, for the bootloader +@item @code{keyboard-layout} (default: @code{#f}) +If this is @code{#f}, the bootloader's menu (if any) uses the default keyboard +layout, usually US@tie{}English (``qwerty''). + +Otherwise, this must be a @code{keyboard-layout} object. For instance, the +following example defines a standard German keyboard layout: + +@example +(keyboard-layout "de") +@end example + +@noindent +while the example below designates the bépo layout for French: + +@example +(keyboard-layout "fr" "bepo") +@end example + +The layout name and variant must match an existing layout in the +@code{xkeyboard-config} package under the @file{share/X11/xkb/symbols} +directory. + +@quotation Note +This option is currently ignored by bootloaders other than @code{grub} and +@code{grub-efi}. +@end quotation + @item @code{theme} (default: @var{#f}) The bootloader theme object describing the theme to use. If no theme is provided, some bootloaders might use a default theme, that's true |