man/vconsole.conf.xml

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<refentry id="vconsole.conf">
        <refentryinfo>
                <title>vconsole.conf</title>
                <productname>systemd</productname>

                <authorgroup>
                        <author>
                                <contrib>Developer</contrib>
                                <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
                                <surname>Poettering</surname>
                                <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
                        </author>
                </authorgroup>
        </refentryinfo>

        <refmeta>
                <refentrytitle>vconsole.conf</refentrytitle>
                <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
        </refmeta>

        <refnamediv>
                <refname>vconsole.conf</refname>
                <refpurpose>configuration file for the virtual console</refpurpose>
        </refnamediv>

        <refsynopsisdiv>
                <para><filename>/etc/vconsole.conf</filename></para>
        </refsynopsisdiv>

        <refsect1>
                <title>Description</title>

                <para>The <filename>/etc/vconsole.conf</filename> file
                configures the virtual console, i.e. keyboard mapping
                and console font. It is applied at boot by
                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-vconsole-setup.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>

                <para>The basic file format of the
                <filename>vconsole.conf</filename> is a
                newline-separated list environment-like
                shell-compatible variable assignments. It is possible
                to source the configuration from shell scripts,
                however, beyond mere variable assignments no shell
                features are supported, allowing applications to read
                the file without implementing a shell compatible
                execution engine.</para>

                <para>Note that the kernel command line options
                <varname>vconsole.keymap=</varname>,
                <varname>vconsole.keymap.toggle=</varname>,
                <varname>vconsole.font=</varname>,
                <varname>vconsole.font.map=</varname>,
                <varname>vconsole.font.unimap=</varname> may be used
                to override the console settings at boot.</para>

                <para>Depending on the operating system other
                configuration files might be checked for configuration
                of the virtual console as well, however only as
                fallback.</para>
        </refsect1>

        <refsect1>
                <title>Options</title>

                <para>The following options are understood:</para>

                <variablelist>

                        <varlistentry>
                                <term><varname>KEYMAP=</varname></term>
                                <term><varname>KEYMAP_TOGGLE=</varname></term>

                                <listitem><para>Configures the key
                                mapping table for the
                                keyboard. <varname>KEYMAP=</varname>
                                defaults to <literal>us</literal> if
                                not set. The
                                <varname>KEYMAP_TOGGLE=</varname> can
                                be used to configured a second toggle
                                keymap and is by default
                                unset.</para></listitem>
                        </varlistentry>

                        <varlistentry>
                                <term><varname>FONT=</varname></term>
                                <term><varname>FONT_MAP=</varname></term>
                                <term><varname>FONT_UNIMAP=</varname></term>

                                <listitem><para>Configures the console
                                font, the console map and the unicode
                                font map. <varname>FONT=</varname>
                                defaults to
                                <literal>latarcyrheb-sun16</literal>.</para></listitem>
                        </varlistentry>

                </variablelist>
        </refsect1>

        <refsect1>
                <title>Example</title>

                <example>
                        <title>German keyboard and console</title>

                        <para><filename>/etc/vconsole.conf:</filename></para>

                        <programlisting>KEYMAP=de-latin1
FONT=latarcyrheb-sun16</programlisting>
                </example>

        </refsect1>

        <refsect1>
                  <title>See Also</title>
                  <para>
                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-vconsole-setup.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>loadkeys</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>setfont</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>locale.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-localed.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                  </para>
        </refsect1>

</refentry>