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authorJohn Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu>2019-08-16 10:45:43 -0700
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2019-08-22 17:59:30 +0200
commit74a98b5cddd0430dd7229d4045f4885191c624b7 (patch)
tree0148fdccde494663e20c2fa049d218185857dde2 /gnu/services/base.scm
parentaf012922776cc249be45604aa295ac086a243473 (diff)
services: console-fonts: Update docstring.
* gnu/services/base (console-font-service-type): Add documentation about valid arguments. Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm
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--- a/gnu/services/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/base.scm
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2016 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
;;; Copyright © 2018 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2019 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
+;;; Copyright © 2019 John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -801,10 +802,14 @@ to add @var{device} to the kernel's entropy pool. The service will fail if
(description
"Install the given fonts on the specified ttys (fonts are per
virtual console on GNU/Linux). The value of this service is a list of
-tty/font pairs like:
+tty/font pairs. The font can be the name of a font provided by the @code{kbd}
+package or any valid argument to @command{setfont}, as in this example:
@example
-'((\"tty1\" . \"LatGrkCyr-8x16\"))
+'((\"tty1\" . \"LatGrkCyr-8x16\")
+ (\"tty2\" . (file-append
+ font-tamzen
+ \"/share/kbd/consolefonts/TamzenForPowerline10x20.psf\")))
@end example\n")))
(define* (console-font-service tty #:optional (font "LatGrkCyr-8x16"))