<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*--> <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"> <!-- This file is part of systemd. Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 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 Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. --> <refentry id="vconsole.conf" conditional='ENABLE_VCONSOLE'> <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 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.</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 configure 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.</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=eurlatgr</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 project='mankier'><refentrytitle>loadkeys</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>setfont</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>locale.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-localed.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> </para> </refsect1> </refentry>