setupcon
sets up the font and the keyboard on Linux console
Synopsis
setupcon
[ option ]... [ variant ...
]
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description
setupcon
is a program for fast and easy setup of the font and the
keyboard on the Linux console.
options
-k,
--keyboard-only
Setup the keyboard only, do not
setup the font.
-f, --font-only
Setup the font only, do not
setup the keyboard.
--force
Do not check whether we are on
the console. Notice that you can be forced to hard-reboot
your computer if you run setupcon with this option and you
are on a X server.
-v, --verbose
Be more verbose. Use this
option if something goes wrong.
--save
If you want to use setupcon early in the boot process,
it is possible that /usr is not yet mounted and the required
data are not available. This option makes setupcon copy the
required data in /etc/console-setup in order to make it
available before /usr is mounted. If you use setupcon early
in the boot process, then use this option whenever you
change the console configuration.
--save-only
Same like --save, but do not
setup the keyboard and the font. This option can be useful
if you run setupcon in a X server.
-h, --help
Display usage information.
variant
Specifies which configuration
file to use. By default the configuration file of setupcon
is /etc/default/console-setup but if you use e.g.
"chukchi" as variant then the configuration file
will be /etc/default/console-setup.chukchi. This allows you
to have several different configurations - for example one
for the Chukchi language and another in
/etc/default/console-setup for your default
configuration.
basic usage
Most of the time you invoke setupcon without arguments. Please
look at the README file for more information.
author
Anton Zinoviev
<anton[:at:]lml.bas[:dot:]bg>, <zinoviev[:at:]debian[:dot:]org>