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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 |