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systemd/man/vconsole.conf.xml
Tom Gundersen f51356b462 vconsole: default to the kernel compiled-in font
No longer override the default kernel font if nothing is specified in
vconsole.conf.

The default kernel font[0] provides ISO-8859-1 and box characters. Users
of Arabic, Cyrilic or Hebrew must set a different font manually as these
character sets were provided by the old default font [1], but are not
any longer.

Rationale:

 * it is counter-intuitive that an empty vconsole.conf file is different
   from adding FONT="";
 * the version of the default font shipped with Arch (which is the
   upstream one) behaves very badly during early boot[2] (which should
   admittedly be fixed in the font itself);
 * the kernel already supplies a default font, it seems reasonable to
   use that unless anything else is specified;
 * This also avoids a needless slow call to setfont; and
 * We don't want to work around problems in the kernel (in case the
   compiled-in font is not acceptable for whatever reason).

[0]: <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/kernel.bdf>
[1]: <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/latarcyrheb.bdf>
[2]: <http://i.imgur.com/J2tM4.jpg>
2012-10-03 15:42:19 +02:00

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<title>vconsole.conf</title>
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<author>
<contrib>Developer</contrib>
<firstname>Lennart</firstname>
<surname>Poettering</surname>
<email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
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<refentrytitle>vconsole.conf</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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<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. It is applied at boot by
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-vconsole-setup.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
<para>The basic file format of the
<filename>vconsole.conf</filename> 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.</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> may 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 for the
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.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Example</title>
<example>
<title>German keyboard and console</title>
<para><filename>/etc/vconsole.conf:</filename></para>
<programlisting>KEYMAP=de-latin1
FONT=latarcyrheb-sun16</programlisting>
</example>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-vconsole-setup.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</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>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-localed.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>