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<refentry id="hostname">
        <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.</para>

                <para>The basic file format of the
                <filename>vconsole.conf</filename> 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.</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> can 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 of for they
                                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>See Also</title>
                  <para>
                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</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>
                  </para>
        </refsect1>

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