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VCONSOLE.CONF(5) vconsole.conf VCONSOLE.CONF(5)
vconsole.conf - Configuration file for the virtual console
/etc/vconsole.conf
The /etc/vconsole.conf file configures the virtual console, i.e.
keyboard mapping and console font. It is applied at boot by udev
using 90-vconsole.rules file. You can safely mask this file if you
want to avoid this kind of initialization.
The format of vconsole.conf is a newline-separated list of
environment-like shell-compatible variable assignments, ignoring
comments and empty lines. 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. See os-release(5) for a detailed description of the
format.
Note that the kernel command line options vconsole.keymap=,
vconsole.keymap_toggle=, vconsole.font=, vconsole.font_map=,
vconsole.font_unimap= may be used to override the console settings
at boot.
Depending on the operating system other configuration files might
be checked for configuration of the virtual console as well,
however only as fallback.
/etc/vconsole.conf is usually created and updated using
systemd-localed.service(8). localectl(1) may be used to instruct
systemd-localed.service to query or update configuration.
The following options are understood:
KEYMAP=, KEYMAP_TOGGLE=
Configures the key mapping table for the keyboard. KEYMAP=
defaults to "us" if not set. Specially, if "@kernel" is
specified, no keymap will be loaded, i.e. the kernel's default
keymap is used. The KEYMAP_TOGGLE= can be used to configure a
second toggle keymap and is by default unset.
FONT=, FONT_MAP=, FONT_UNIMAP=
Configures the console font, the console map and the unicode
font map.
A few configuration parameters from vconsole.conf may be
overridden on the kernel command line:
vconsole.keymap=, vconsole.keymap_toggle=
Overrides KEYMAP= and KEYMAP_TOGGLE=.
Added in version 232.
vconsole.font=, vconsole.font_map=, vconsole.font_unimap=
Overrides FONT=, FONT_MAP=, and FONT_UNIMAP=.
Added in version 232.
Example 1. German keyboard and console
/etc/vconsole.conf:
KEYMAP=de-latin1
FONT=eurlatgr
systemd(1), systemd-vconsole-setup.service(8), loadkeys(1),
setfont(8), locale.conf(5), systemd-localed.service(8)
This page is part of the systemd (systemd system and service
manager) project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd⟩. If you have a
bug report for this manual page, see
⟨http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/#bugreports⟩.
This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/systemd/systemd.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At that
time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
repository was 2025-08-11.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
[email protected]
systemd 258~rc2 VCONSOLE.CONF(5)
Pages that refer to this page: localectl(1), systemd-firstboot(1), kernel-command-line(7), systemd.directives(7), systemd.index(7), systemd-localed.service(8), systemd-vconsole-setup.service(8)
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