vconsole.conf.5.txt

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.

The basic file format of the vconsole.conf is a newline-separated list 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.

In Arch /etc/rc.conf is checked for vconsole configuration as well as described below, however only as fallback.

OPTIONS

The following options are understood:

KEYMAP=

Configures the key mapping table of for they keyboard. Overriding KEYMAP from rc.conf.

FONT=, FONT_MAP=

Configures the console font and the console map. Overriding respectively CONSOLEFONT and CONSOLEMAP from rc.conf.

EXAMPLE

Example 1. German keyboard and console

/etc/vconsole.conf:

KEYMAP=de-latin1
FONT=latarcyrheb-sun16

SEE ALSO

systemd.vconsole.conf(5), loadkeys(1), setfont(8), rc.conf(5)

AUTHORS

Original by Lennart Poettering, adapted to Arch Linux by Tom Gundersen.