1VCONSOLE.CONF(5)                 vconsole.conf                VCONSOLE.CONF(5)
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NAME

6       vconsole.conf - Configuration file for the virtual console
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SYNOPSIS

9       /etc/vconsole.conf
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DESCRIPTION

12       The /etc/vconsole.conf file configures the virtual console, i.e.
13       keyboard mapping and console font. It is applied at boot by udev using
14       90-vconsole.rules file. You can safely mask this file if you want to
15       avoid this kind of initialization.
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17       The format of vconsole.conf is a newline-separated list of
18       environment-like shell-compatible variable assignments, ignoring
19       comments and empty lines. It is possible to source the configuration
20       from shell scripts, however, beyond mere variable assignments no shell
21       features are supported, allowing applications to read the file without
22       implementing a shell compatible execution engine. See os-release(5) for
23       a detailed description of the format.
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25       Note that the kernel command line options vconsole.keymap=,
26       vconsole.keymap_toggle=, vconsole.font=, vconsole.font_map=,
27       vconsole.font_unimap= may be used to override the console settings at
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30       Depending on the operating system other configuration files might be
31       checked for configuration of the virtual console as well, however only
32       as fallback.
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34       /etc/vconsole.conf is usually created and updated using systemd-
35       localed.service(8).  localectl(1) may be used to instruct
36       systemd-localed.service to query or update configuration.
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OPTIONS

39       The following options are understood:
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41       KEYMAP=, KEYMAP_TOGGLE=
42           Configures the key mapping table for the keyboard.  KEYMAP=
43           defaults to "us" if not set. Specially, if "@kernel" is specified,
44           no keymap will be loaded, i.e. the kernel's default keymap is used.
45           The KEYMAP_TOGGLE= can be used to configure a second toggle keymap
46           and is by default unset.
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48       FONT=, FONT_MAP=, FONT_UNIMAP=
49           Configures the console font, the console map and the unicode font
50           map.
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KERNEL COMMAND LINE

53       A few configuration parameters from vconsole.conf may be overridden on
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56       vconsole.keymap=, vconsole.keymap_toggle=
57           Overrides KEYMAP= and KEYMAP_TOGGLE=.
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59       vconsole.font=, vconsole.font_map=, vconsole.font_unimap=
60           Overrides FONT=, FONT_MAP=, and FONT_UNIMAP=.
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EXAMPLE

63       Example 1. German keyboard and console
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65       /etc/vconsole.conf:
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67           KEYMAP=de-latin1
68           FONT=eurlatgr
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SEE ALSO

71       systemd(1), systemd-vconsole-setup.service(8), loadkeys(1), setfont(8),
72       locale.conf(5), systemd-localed.service(8)
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