systemd Developer Lennart Poettering lennart@poettering.net systemd-vconsole-setup.service 8 systemd-vconsole-setup.service systemd-vconsole-setup Configure the virtual consoles systemd-vconsole-setup.service /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup TTY systemd-vconsole-setup is a helper used to prepare either all virtual consoles, or — if the optional TTY parameter is provided — a specific one. When the system is booting up it's called by udev during vtconsole subsystem initialization. Systemd also calls it internally as needed via systemd-vconsole-setup.service. The helper calls loadkeys1 and setfont8 internally. You may want to use this helper whenever you change vconsole.conf to refresh the settings on your consoles — either through the systemctl restart / systemctl start command or directly through the executable. See vconsole.conf5 for information about the configuration files and kernel command line options understood by this program. systemd1, vconsole.conf5, loadkeys1, setfont8, systemd-localed.service8