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authorJan Malakhovski <oxij@oxij.org>2018-04-25 07:11:49 +0000
committerJörg Thalheim <joerg@thalheim.io>2018-04-27 18:07:19 +0100
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nixos: alsa: better docstring
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-rw-r--r--nixos/modules/services/audio/alsa.nix5
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diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/audio/alsa.nix b/nixos/modules/services/audio/alsa.nix
index e3e8bb28c58b..376aad66e236 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/audio/alsa.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/audio/alsa.nix
@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ in
           description = ''
             Whether to enable volume and capture control with keyboard media keys.
 
+            You want to leave this disabled if you run a desktop environment
+            like KDE, Gnome, Xfce, etc, as those handle such things themselves.
+            You might want to enable this if you run a minimalistic desktop
+            environment or work from bare linux ttys/framebuffers.
+
             Enabling this will turn on <option>services.actkbd</option>.
           '';
         };