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4mSETUPCON24m(1) Console-setup User's Manual 4mSETUPCON24m(1)
1mNAME0m
setupcon - sets up the font and the keyboard on the console
1mSYNOPSIS0m
1msetupcon 22m[4mOPTION24m]... [4mVARIANT24m]
1mDESCRIPTION0m
1msetupcon 22mis a program for fast and easy setup of the font and the key-
board on the console. Most of the time you invoke 1msetupcon 22mwithout ar-
guments. The keyboard configuration is specified in 4m~/.keyboard24m or
4m/usr/local/etc/default/keyboard24m. The font configuration is specified
in 4m~/.console-setup24m or 4m/usr/local/etc/default/console-setup24m. Consult
1mkeyboard22m(5) and 1mconsole-setup22m(5) for instructions how to configure
these two files.
If you have to switch often between different encodings, keyboards or
languages, you can prepare several alternative configuration files for
1msetupcon22m. Suppose that most of the time you will use Greek language
with Greek keyboard layout, but sometimes you need to type in German
with German keyboard layout. In this situation you should customize
the main configuration files (4mkeyboard24m and 4mconsole-setup24m) for Greek.
Also, create alternative configuration files for German named
4mkeyboard.german24m and 4mconsole-setup.german24m. Then in order to configure
the console for Greek you will simply run the command with no argu-
ments: 4msetupcon24m and in order to configure the console for German you
will use 4msetupcon24m 4mgerman24m.
1mOPTIONS0m
4mVARIANT0m
Specifies which configuration file to use. With no variant, the
configuration files of 1msetupcon 22mare named 4mconsole-setup24m and 4mkey-0m
4mboard24m. On the other hand, if you use e.g. 4mchukchi24m as 4mVARIANT0m
then the configuration files are 4mconsole-setup.chukchi24m and 4mkey-0m
4mboard.chukchi24m. In this way you can have easy access to several
different configurations - for example one for the Chukchi lan-
guage and another for the default configuration.
1m-v22m, 1m--verbose0m
Be more verbose. Use this option if something goes wrong or
while experimenting with the configuration files.
1m-k22m, 1m--keyboard-only0m
Setup the keyboard only, do not setup the font or the terminal.
On Linux it is enough to do this configuration only once.
1m-f22m, 1m--font-only0m
Setup the font only, do not setup the keyboard or the terminal.
On Linux this configuration should be repeated each time a new
console driver is activated (for example when the frame buffer
becomes active).
1m-t22m, 1m--terminal-only0m
Setup the terminal only, do not setup the keyboard or the font.
1m--current-tty0m
Setup the only the current virtual terminal.
1m--force0m
Do not check whether we are on the console. Notice that you can
be forced to hard-reboot your computer if you run 1msetupcon 22mwith
this option and the screen is controlled by a X server.
1m--save 22mThis option can be useful if you want to use 1msetupcon 22mearly in
the boot process while 4m/usr24m is not yet mounted and the required
data are not available. This option will make 1msetupcon 22mcopy the
required files in 4m/etc/console-setup/24m in order to make them
available before 4m/usr24m is mounted. If you use 1msetupcon 22mearly in
the boot process, then you should run it with this option after
every change of the console configuration.
1m--save-only0m
The same as 4m--save24m, but does not setup anything. This option
can be useful if you want to save the required files while the
screen is controlled by a X server.
1m--save-keyboard 4m22mFILE0m
For use by initrd builders. Do not configure anything. Save an
usable keyboard layout in 4mFILE24m.
1m--setup-dir 4m22mDIR0m
For use by initrd builders. Do not configure anything. Arrange
in the directory 4mDIR24m everything necessary in order to configure
the console. The file 4mDIR/morefiles24m lists all binaries the ini-
trd builder has to install in the initrd image. All other files
in 4mDIR24m have to be copied unchanged in the initrd. In order to
configure the console one has to run the script 4mDIR/bin/setup-0m
4mcon24m.
1m-h22m, 1m--help0m
Display usage information.
1mFILES0m
4m~/.console-setup0m
4m~/.keyboard0m
4m/usr/local/etc/default/console-setup0m
4m/usr/local/etc/default/keyboard0m
4m/usr/local/etc/default/console-setup.VARIANT0m
4m/usr/local/etc/default/keyboard.VARIANT0m
4m/etc/console-setup/0m
1mSEE ALSO0m
1mkeyboard22m(5), 1mconsole-setup22m(5)
console-setup 2011-03-17 4mSETUPCON24m(1)
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