man 5 VCONSOLE.CONF

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. 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)

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