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SETUPCON(1)                          Console-setup User's Manual                         SETUPCON(1)



NAME
       setupcon - sets up the font and the keyboard on the console


SYNOPSIS
       setupcon [OPTION]... [VARIANT]


DESCRIPTION
       setupcon  is  a  program for fast and easy setup of the font and the keyboard on the console.
       Most of the time you invoke setupcon without arguments.  The keyboard configuration is speci‐
       fied in ~/.keyboard or /etc/default/keyboard.  The font configuration is specified in ~/.con‐
       sole-setup or /etc/default/console-setup.  Consult keyboard(5) and console-setup(5)  for  in‐
       structions how to configure these two files.

       If you have to switch often between different encodings, keyboards or languages, you can pre‐
       pare several alternative configuration files for setupcon.  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  (keyboard  and console-setup) for Greek.  Also, create alternative configuration files
       for German named keyboard.german and console-setup.german.  Then in order  to  configure  the
       console for Greek you will simply run the command with no arguments: setupcon and in order to
       configure the console for German you will use setupcon german.



OPTIONS
       VARIANT
              Specifies which configuration file to use.  With no variant, the  configuration  files
              of  setupcon are named console-setup and keyboard.  On the other hand, if you use e.g.
              chukchi as VARIANT then the configuration files  are  console-setup.chukchi  and  key‐
              board.chukchi.   In  this way you can have easy access to several different configura‐
              tions - for example one for the Chukchi language and another for the default  configu‐
              ration.


       -v, --verbose
              Be more verbose.   Use this option if something goes wrong or while experimenting with
              the configuration files.


       -k, --keyboard-only
              Setup the keyboard only, do not setup the font or the terminal.  On Linux it is enough
              to do this configuration only once.


       -f, --font-only
              Setup the font only, do not setup the keyboard or the terminal.  On Linux this config‐
              uration should be repeated each time a new console driver is  activated  (for  example
              when the frame buffer becomes active).


       -t, --terminal-only
              Setup the terminal only, do not setup the keyboard or the font.


       --current-tty
              Setup the only the current virtual terminal.


       --force
              Do not check whether we are on the console.  Notice that you can be forced to hard-re‐
              boot your computer if you run setupcon with this option and the screen  is  controlled
              by a X server.


       --save This  option can be useful if you want to use setupcon early in the boot process while
              /usr is not yet mounted and the required data are not  available.   This  option  will
              make  setupcon  copy  the  required files in /etc/console-setup/ in order to make them
              available before /usr is mounted.  If you use setupcon early in the boot process, then
              you should run it with this option after every change of the console configuration.


       --save-only
              The  same  as  --save,  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.


       --save-keyboard FILE
              For use by initrd builders.  Do not configure anything.  Save an usable keyboard  lay‐
              out in FILE.


       --setup-dir DIR
              For  use by initrd builders.  Do not configure anything.  Arrange in the directory DIR
              everything necessary in order to configure the console.  The file DIR/morefiles  lists
              all  binaries  the initrd builder has to install in the initrd image.  All other files
              in DIR have to be copied unchanged in the initrd.  In order to configure  the  console
              one has to run the script DIR/bin/setupcon.


       -h, --help
              Display usage information.


FILES
       ~/.console-setup
       ~/.keyboard
       /etc/default/console-setup
       /etc/default/keyboard
       /etc/default/console-setup.VARIANT
       /etc/default/keyboard.VARIANT
       /etc/console-setup/


SEE ALSO
       keyboard(5), console-setup(5)



console-setup                                2011-03-17                                  SETUPCON(1)