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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 8e36ce3a5c..7504deab4e 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -5005,6 +5005,29 @@ usually useful in the context of a ``desktop'' setup---that is, on a machine running a graphical display server, possibly with graphical user interfaces, etc. +To simplify things, the module defines a variable containing the set of +services that users typically expect on a machine with a graphical +environment and networking: + +@defvr {Scheme Variable} %desktop-services +This is a list of services that builds upon @var{%base-services} and +adds or adjust services for a typical ``desktop'' setup. + +In particular, it adds a graphical login manager (@pxref{X Window, +@code{slim-service}}), a network management tool (@pxref{Networking +Services, @code{wicd-service}}), energy and color management services, +an NTP client and an SSH server (@pxref{Networking Services}), the Avahi +daemon, and has the name service switch service configured to be able to +use @code{nss-mdns} (@pxref{Name Service Switch, mDNS}). +@end defvr + +The @var{%desktop-services} variable can be used as the @code{services} +field of an @code{operating-system} declaration (@pxref{operating-system +Reference, @code{services}}). + +The actual service definitions provided by @code{(gnu services desktop)} +are described below. + @deffn {Monadic Procedure} dbus-service @var{services} @ [#:dbus @var{dbus}] Return a service that runs the ``system bus'', using @var{dbus}, with |