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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>
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This file is part of systemd.
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Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
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systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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Lesser General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
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along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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<refentry id="vconsole.conf">
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<refentryinfo>
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<title>vconsole.conf</title>
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<productname>systemd</productname>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<contrib>Developer</contrib>
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<firstname>Lennart</firstname>
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<surname>Poettering</surname>
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<email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
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</author>
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</authorgroup>
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</refentryinfo>
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<refmeta>
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<refentrytitle>vconsole.conf</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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</refmeta>
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<refnamediv>
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<refname>vconsole.conf</refname>
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<refpurpose>Configuration file for the virtual console</refpurpose>
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</refnamediv>
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<refsynopsisdiv>
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<para><filename>/etc/vconsole.conf</filename></para>
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</refsynopsisdiv>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Description</title>
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<para>The <filename>/etc/vconsole.conf</filename> file
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configures the virtual console, i.e. keyboard mapping
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and console font. It is applied at boot by
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-vconsole-setup.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
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<para>The basic file format of the
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<filename>vconsole.conf</filename> is a
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newline-separated list environment-like
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shell-compatible variable assignments. It is possible
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to source the configuration from shell scripts,
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however, beyond mere variable assignments no shell
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features are supported, allowing applications to read
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the file without implementing a shell compatible
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execution engine.</para>
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<para>Note that the kernel command line options
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<varname>vconsole.keymap=</varname>,
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<varname>vconsole.keymap.toggle=</varname>,
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<varname>vconsole.font=</varname>,
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<varname>vconsole.font.map=</varname>,
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<varname>vconsole.font.unimap=</varname> may be used
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to override the console settings at boot.</para>
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<para>Depending on the operating system other
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configuration files might be checked for configuration
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of the virtual console as well, however only as
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fallback.</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Options</title>
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<para>The following options are understood:</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>KEYMAP=</varname></term>
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<term><varname>KEYMAP_TOGGLE=</varname></term>
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<listitem><para>Configures the key
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mapping table for the
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keyboard. <varname>KEYMAP=</varname>
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defaults to <literal>us</literal> if
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not set. The
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<varname>KEYMAP_TOGGLE=</varname> can
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be used to configured a second toggle
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keymap and is by default
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unset.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>FONT=</varname></term>
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<term><varname>FONT_MAP=</varname></term>
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<term><varname>FONT_UNIMAP=</varname></term>
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<listitem><para>Configures the console
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font, the console map and the unicode
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font map.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Example</title>
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<example>
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<title>German keyboard and console</title>
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<para><filename>/etc/vconsole.conf:</filename></para>
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<programlisting>KEYMAP=de-latin1
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FONT=latarcyrheb-sun16</programlisting>
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</example>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>See Also</title>
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<para>
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-vconsole-setup.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>loadkeys</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>setfont</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>locale.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-localed.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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</para>
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</refsect1>
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</refentry>
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