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25 <refentry id="vconsole.conf">
27 <title>vconsole.conf</title>
28 <productname>systemd</productname>
32 <contrib>Developer</contrib>
33 <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
34 <surname>Poettering</surname>
35 <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
41 <refentrytitle>vconsole.conf</refentrytitle>
42 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
46 <refname>vconsole.conf</refname>
47 <refpurpose>configuration file for the virtual console</refpurpose>
51 <para><filename>/etc/vconsole.conf</filename></para>
55 <title>Description</title>
57 <para>The <filename>/etc/vconsole.conf</filename> file
58 configures the virtual console, i.e. keyboard mapping
59 and console font.</para>
61 <para>The basic file format of the
62 <filename>vconsole.conf</filename> is a
63 newline-separated list environment-like
64 shell-compatible variable assignments. It is possible
65 to source the configuration from shell scripts,
66 however, beyond mere variable assignments no shell
67 features are supported, allowing applications to read
68 the file without implementing a shell compatible
69 execution engine.</para>
71 <para>Note that the kernel command line options
72 <varname>vconsole.keymap=</varname>,
73 <varname>vconsole.keymap.toggle=</varname>,
74 <varname>vconsole.font=</varname>,
75 <varname>vconsole.font.map=</varname>,
76 <varname>vconsole.font.unimap=</varname> may be used
77 to override the console settings at boot.</para>
79 <para>Depending on the operating system other
80 configuration files might be checked for configuration
81 of the virtual console as well, however only as
86 <title>Options</title>
88 <para>The following options are understood:</para>
93 <term><varname>KEYMAP=</varname></term>
94 <term><varname>KEYMAP_TOGGLE=</varname></term>
96 <listitem><para>Configures the key
97 mapping table of for they
98 keyboard. <varname>KEYMAP=</varname>
99 defaults to <literal>us</literal> if
101 <varname>KEYMAP_TOGGLE=</varname> can
102 be used to configured a second toggle
103 keymap and is by default
104 unset.</para></listitem>
108 <term><varname>FONT=</varname></term>
109 <term><varname>FONT_MAP=</varname></term>
110 <term><varname>FONT_UNIMAP=</varname></term>
112 <listitem><para>Configures the console
113 font, the console map and the unicode
114 font map. <varname>FONT=</varname>
116 <literal>latarcyrheb-sun16</literal>.</para></listitem>
123 <title>Example</title>
126 <title>German keyboard and console</title>
128 <para><filename>/etc/vconsole.conf:</filename></para>
130 <programlisting>KEYMAP=de-latin1
131 FONT=latarcyrheb-sun16</programlisting>
137 <title>See Also</title>
139 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
140 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>loadkeys</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
141 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>setfont</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
142 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>locale.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>