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diff --git a/man/vconsole.conf.xml b/man/vconsole.conf.xml
index 1926f337b..09a477670 100644
--- a/man/vconsole.conf.xml
+++ b/man/vconsole.conf.xml
@@ -9,20 +9,20 @@
Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- General Public License for more details.
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with systemd; If not, see .
-->
-
+
vconsole.conf
systemd
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
vconsole.conf
- configuration file for the virtual console
+ Configuration file for the virtual console
@@ -56,23 +56,25 @@
The /etc/vconsole.conf file
configures the virtual console, i.e. keyboard mapping
- and console font.
+ and console font. It is applied at boot by
+ systemd-vconsole-setup.service8.
The basic file format of the
- vconsole.conf is a set of
- 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
- containing a shell compatible execution engine.
+ vconsole.conf is a
+ newline-separated list of 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.
Note that the kernel command line options
vconsole.keymap=,
vconsole.keymap.toggle=,
vconsole.font=,
vconsole.font.map=,
- vconsole.font.unimap= can be used
+ vconsole.font.unimap= may be used
to override the console settings at boot.
Depending on the operating system other
@@ -93,12 +95,12 @@
KEYMAP_TOGGLE=
Configures the key
- mapping table of for they
+ mapping table for the
keyboard. KEYMAP=
defaults to us if
not set. The
KEYMAP_TOGGLE= can
- be used to configured a second toggle
+ be used to configure a second toggle
keymap and is by default
unset.
@@ -110,21 +112,35 @@
Configures the console
font, the console map and the unicode
- font map. FONT=
- defaults to
- latarcyrheb-sun16.
+ font map.
+
+ Example
+
+
+ German keyboard and console
+
+ /etc/vconsole.conf:
+
+ KEYMAP=de-latin1
+FONT=latarcyrheb-sun16
+
+
+
+
See Also
systemd1,
+ systemd-vconsole-setup.service8,
loadkeys1,
setfont8,
- locale.conf5
+ locale.conf5,
+ systemd-localed.service8