systemd-vconsole-setup.service

systemd
Developer Lennart Poettering lennart@poettering.net
systemd-vconsole-setup.service 8
systemd-vconsole-setup.service systemd-vconsole-setup Configure the virtual console at boot

`systemd-vconsole-setup.service`

`/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup`

## Description

`systemd-vconsole-setup.service` is an early-boot service that configures the virtual console font and console keymap. Internally it calls loadkeys 1 and setfont 8.

See vconsole.conf 5 for information about the configuration files understood by this service.

## Kernel Command Line

A few configuration parameters from `vconsole.conf` may be overridden on the kernel command line:

`vconsole.keymap=`
`vconsole.keymap.toggle=`

  Overrides the key mapping table for the keyboard and the second toggle keymap.

`vconsole.font=`
`vconsole.font.map=`
`vconsole.font.unimap=`

  Configures the console font, the console map, and the unicode font map.

See vconsole.conf 5 for information about these settings.

## See Also

systemd 1, vconsole.conf 5, loadkeys 1, setfont 8, systemd-localed.service 8