Lennart Poettering
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These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship information.
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<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
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<!--
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SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
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-->
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<refentry id="vconsole.conf" conditional='ENABLE_VCONSOLE'>
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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 configures
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the virtual console, i.e. keyboard mapping and console font. It is
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applied at boot by udev using <filename>90-vconsole.rules</filename> file.
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You can safely mask this file if you want to avoid this kind of initialization.
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</para>
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<para>The basic file format of the
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<filename>vconsole.conf</filename> is a newline-separated list of
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environment-like shell-compatible variable assignments. It is
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possible to source the configuration from shell scripts, however,
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beyond mere variable assignments no shell features are supported,
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allowing applications to read the file without implementing a
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shell compatible 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 configuration files
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might be checked for configuration of the virtual console as well,
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however only as fallback.</para>
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<para><filename>/etc/vconsole.conf</filename> is usually created and updated
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using
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-localed.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>localectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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may be used to instruct <command>systemd-localed.service</command> to
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query or update configuration.</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 mapping table for the keyboard.
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<varname>KEYMAP=</varname> defaults to <literal>us</literal> if not set. The
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<varname>KEYMAP_TOGGLE=</varname> can be used to configure a second toggle keymap and is by
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default 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 font, the console map
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and the unicode 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>Kernel Command Line</title>
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<para>A few configuration parameters from <filename>vconsole.conf</filename> may be overridden
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on the kernel command line:</para>
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<variablelist class='kernel-commandline-options'>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>vconsole.keymap=</varname></term>
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<term><varname>vconsole.keymap_toggle=</varname></term>
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<listitem><para>Overrides <varname>KEYMAP=</varname> and <varname>KEYMAP_TOGGLE=</varname>.
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</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>vconsole.font=</varname></term>
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<term><varname>vconsole.font_map=</varname></term>
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<term><varname>vconsole.font_unimap=</varname></term>
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<listitem><para>Overrides <varname>FONT=</varname>, <varname>FONT_MAP=</varname>, and
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<varname>FONT_UNIMAP=</varname>.</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=eurlatgr</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 project='mankier'><refentrytitle>loadkeys</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>setfont</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry project='man-pages'><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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