systemd-vconsole-setup.service systemd Developer Lennart Poettering lennart@poettering.net systemd-vconsole-setup.service 8 systemd-vconsole-setup.service systemd-vconsole-setup Configure the virtual consoles systemd-vconsole-setup.service /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup TTY Description systemd-vconsole-setup is a helper used to prepare either all virtual consoles, or — if the optional TTY parameter is provided — a specific one. When the system is booting up it's called by systemd-udevd8 during vtconsole subsystem initialization. Systemd also calls it internally as needed via systemd-vconsole-setup.service. The helper calls loadkeys1 and setfont8 internally. You may want to use this helper whenever you change vconsole.conf to refresh the settings on your consoles — either through the systemctl restart / systemctl start command or directly through the executable. See vconsole.conf5 for information about the configuration files and kernel command line options understood by this program. See Also systemd1, vconsole.conf5, loadkeys1, setfont8, systemd-localed.service8