x SuSE Linux 13.1-RELEASE x
x SuSE Linux 13.1-RELEASEx
VCONSOLE.CONF(5) vconsole.conf VCONSOLE.CONF(5)
NAME
vconsole.conf - Configuration file for the virtual console
SYNOPSIS
/etc/vconsole.conf
DESCRIPTION
The /etc/vconsole.conf file configures the virtual console, i.e.
keyboard mapping and console font. It is applied at boot by udev using
90-vconsole.rules file. You can safely mask this file if you want to
avoid this kind of initialization.
The format of vconsole.conf is a newline-separated list of
environment-like shell-compatible variable assignments, ignoring
comments and empty lines. 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. See os-release(5) for
a detailed description of the format.
Note that the kernel command line options vconsole.keymap=,
vconsole.keymap_toggle=, vconsole.font=, vconsole.font_map=,
vconsole.font_unimap= may be used to override the console settings at
boot.
Depending on the operating system other configuration files might be
checked for configuration of the virtual console as well, however only
as fallback.
/etc/vconsole.conf is usually created and updated using systemd-
localed.service(8). localectl(1) may be used to instruct
systemd-localed.service to query or update configuration.
OPTIONS
The following options are understood:
KEYMAP=, KEYMAP_TOGGLE=
Configures the key mapping table for the keyboard. KEYMAP=
defaults to "us" if not set. Specially, if "@kernel" is specified,
no keymap will be loaded, i.e. the kernel's default keymap is used.
The KEYMAP_TOGGLE= can be used to configure a second toggle keymap
and is by default unset.
FONT=, FONT_MAP=, FONT_UNIMAP=
Configures the console font, the console map and the unicode font
map.
KERNEL COMMAND LINE
A few configuration parameters from vconsole.conf may be overridden on
the kernel command line:
vconsole.keymap=, vconsole.keymap_toggle=
Overrides KEYMAP= and KEYMAP_TOGGLE=.
vconsole.font=, vconsole.font_map=, vconsole.font_unimap=
Overrides FONT=, FONT_MAP=, and FONT_UNIMAP=.
EXAMPLE
Example 1. German keyboard and console
/etc/vconsole.conf:
KEYMAP=de-latin1
FONT=eurlatgr
SEE ALSO
systemd(1), systemd-vconsole-setup.service(8), loadkeys(1), setfont(8),
locale.conf(5), systemd-localed.service(8)
systemd 254 VCONSOLE.CONF(5)
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