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CONSOLE-SETUP
Section: Console-setup User's Manual (5)Updated: 2011-03-17
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NAME
console-setup - configuration file for setupconDESCRIPTION
The file console-setup specifies the encoding and the font to be used by setupcon(1) in order to setup the console. It can be used also to specify the keyboard layout but it is not recommended to do so, use keyboard(5) instead.The font specification consists of three parameters - codeset, font face and font size. The codeset specifies what characters will be supported by the font. There isn't one-to-one correspondence between codeset and encoding, for example the codeset Lat15 is suitable for ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-9 and ISO 8859-15. The codesets are two kinds - small and big. Only small codesets are supported on FreeBSD.
The font face determines the general look of the font. Each font face is available in certain possible sizes. On FreeBSD only 8x16, 8x14 and 8x8 are valid sizes. On Linux if framebuffer is not used or consolechars(1) is installed instead of setfont(1), then the permitted sizes have the form 8xNUMBER.
The console driver of FreeBSD permits fonts in different sizes to be simultaneously loaded. Which one of them will be actually used depends on the current video mode. Therefore, on this platform the font size specification will be ignored and setupcon(1) will load the selected font face in all available sizes.
The file console-setup consists of variable settings in POSIX format:
- VARIABLE='VALUE'
Only one assignment is allowed per line. Comments (starting with '#') are also allowed.
OPTIONS
The following variables can be set.
- ACTIVE_CONSOLES
-
Specifies the device files in
/dev
of the virtual terminals to be configured. File name wild-cards
(*, ?)
are allowed. On Linux usually you can set this to
/dev/tty[1-6]
and on FreeBSD a sensible value is
/dev/ttyv[0-8].
You can assign to this variable also the special value
guess.
It will cause
setupcon(1)
to attempt to guess the active virtual consoles by looking in
configuration files such as
/etc/inittab and /etc/ttys.
This guessing is not always reliable.
- CHARMAP
-
Specifies the desired encoding on the console. Valid values are:
UTF-8,
ARMSCII-8,
CP1251,
CP1255,
CP1256,
GEORGIAN-ACADEMY,
GEORGIAN-PS,
IBM1133,
ISIRI-3342,
ISO-8859-1,
ISO-8859-2,
ISO-8859-3,
ISO-8859-4,
ISO-8859-5,
ISO-8859-6,
ISO-8859-7,
ISO-8859-8,
ISO-8859-9,
ISO-8859-10,
ISO-8859-11,
ISO-8859-13,
ISO-8859-14,
ISO-8859-15,
ISO-8859-16,
KOI8-R,
KOI8-U,
TIS-620 and
VISCII.
The special value
guess
is also recognized in which case the system command
locale(1)
will be used to guess the desired encoding (currently this works
reliably only with
GNU
libc).
- CODESET
-
In most cases the special value
guess
can be used here in which case a suitable codeset will be guessed.
The codeset determines which symbols are supported by the font. Valid
small codesets are:
Armenian,
CyrAsia,
CyrKoi,
CyrSlav,
Georgian,
Greek,
Hebrew,
Lao,
Lat15,
Lat2,
Lat38,
Lat7 and
Thai.
Valid big codesets are:
Arabic,
Ethiopian,
Uni1,
Uni2,
Uni3 and
Vietnamese.
Only small codesets can be used on FreeBSD. See below the section
entitled ``CODESETS'' for detailed description of each of these
codesets.
- FONTFACE and FONTSIZE
-
Valid font faces are:
VGA (sizes 8x8, 8x14, 8x16, 16x28 and 16x32),
Terminus (sizes 6x12, 8x14, 8x16, 10x20, 12x24, 14x28 and 16x32),
TerminusBold (sizes 8x14, 8x16, 10x20, 12x24, 14x28 and 16x32),
TerminusBoldVGA (sizes 8x14 and 8x16),
and
Fixed (sizes 8x13, 8x14, 8x15, 8x16 and 8x18).
If however
CODESET=Ethiopian,
then the available font faces are
Goha and GohaClassic,
each in sizes
8x12, 8x14 and 8x16.
Set FONTFACE and FONTSIZE to empty strings if you want to configure only the keyboard and to leave the console font unchanged.
- VIDEOMODE
-
Set
VIDEOMODE
to an empty string to avoid setting up the video mode. On FreeBSD you
can run
vidcontrol -i mode
in order to see all possible video modes. On Linux fbset(1) is used to configure the video mode but very often this doesn't work because the default framebuffer driver (VesaFB) is rather limited and doesn't allow changes of the video mode. - FONT, FONT_MAP and CONSOLE_MAP
-
If set, specify that a non standard font is to be used. The value of
the variable
FONT
consists of one or more space separated font file names. On Linux,
when the font doesn't contain embedded Unicode map, an external map
can be specified with the variable
FONT_MAP.
The value of
CONSOLE_MAP
is a file that specifies a translation map from the user's 8-bit
encoding to Unicode (Linux only) or directly to font positions.
- SCREEN_WIDTH and SCREEN_HEIGHT
-
If set, these variables specify a screen size that
setupcon(1)
will enforce with
stty(1).
This can be useful with some braille devices that are only 40 cells
wide. The screen size can not exceed what the current screen
resolution can display according to the size of the loaded font.
- BEEP
-
This variable controls the style of the system beep on the console. When unset or when
BEEP=default
no changes to the system beep will be made. Other possible values of
BEEP
are:
standard -
set a standard beep;
short -
like the standard beep but somewhat shorter;
shortest -
even more short, suitable when your work generates lots of beeps;
polite -
a very short beep with low frequency, suitable when there are other
people in the room;
attention -
a very long beep, suitable when you want to warn yourself about an
occurring event;
annoying -
also a long beep, suitable when you want to warn somebody else about
an occurring event; and
off -
disable the system beep on the console.
CODESETS
There are two kinds of codesets - small (up to 256 symbols) and big (up to 512 symbols). Only small codesets can be used on FreeBSD. When the screen is in text mode (i.e. framebuffer is not used) then fonts covering big codesets will reduce the number of available foreground colors.Arabic (a big codeset)
Supported languages: Arabic, Kurdish in Iran, Pashto, Persian and Urdu.Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (size 8x16) and VGA (sizes 8x16 and 16x32).
Armenian
Supported language: Armenian.Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes).
CyrAsia
This codeset supports some of the non-Slavic Cyrillic languages - Abkhazia, Avaric, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Buryat, Chechen, Chuvash, Inupiaq (Eskimo), Kara-Kalpak, Kazakh, Kirgiz, Komi, Kumyk, Kurdish, Lezghian, Mari (Cheremis), Mongolian, Ossetic, Selkup (Ostyak-Samoyed), Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Tuvinian, Uzbek and Yakut.Completely supported by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes).
CyrKoi
Supports entirely the 8-bit encodings KOI8-R and KOI8-U. Suitable for Russian and Ukrainian when one of these two encodings is used.Completely covered by the following font faces (in all sizes): Fixed, Terminus, TerminusBold, TerminusBoldVGA and VGA.
CyrSlav
Supports entirely the 8-bit encodings ISO-8859-5 and CP1251. Suitable the Slavic Cyrillic languages - Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian and Ukrainian. For Serbian both the Cyrillic and the Latin alphabets are supported.Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes), Terminus (all sizes), TerminusBold (all sizes), TerminusBoldVGA (all sizes), VGA (sizes 8x16 and 16x32).
Ethiopian (a big codeset)
Supports Amharic, Ethiopic (Geez), Tigre and Tigrinya.This codeset is partially covered by the following font faces: Fixed (sizes 8x15 and 8x18), Goha (all sizes) and GohaClassic (all sizes).
Georgian
Supported language: Georgian.Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes).
Greek
Supported language: Greek.Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes) and VGA (sizes 8x16 and 16x32).
Hebrew
Supported languages: Hebrew and Yiddish.Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (sizes 8x13, 8x15, 8x16 and 8x18) and VGA (sizes 8x16 and 16x32).
Lao
Supported languages: Lao.Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (sizes 8x15 and 8x16).
Lat15
Covers entirely ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-9 and ISO-8859-15. Suitable for the so called Latin1 and Latin5 languages - Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Aragonese, Asturian, Aymara, Basque, Bislama, Breton, Catalan, Chamorro, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, Hiri Motu, Icelandic, Ido, Indonesian, Interlingua, Interlingue, Italian, Low Saxon, Lule Sami, Luxembourgish, Malagasy, Manx Gaelic, Norwegian Bokmal, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Oromo or Galla, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romance (Romansch), Scots Gaelic, Somali, South Sami, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tswana, Turkish, Volapuk, Votic, Walloon, Xhosa, Yapese and Zulu.Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes), Terminus (all sizes), TerminusBold (all sizes), TerminusBoldVGA (all sizes), VGA (sizes 8x16 and 16x32).
Lat2
Covers entirely ISO-8859-2. The Euro sign and the Romanian letters with comma below are also supported. Suitable for the so called Latin2 languages - Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian and Sorbian (lower and upper).Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes), Terminus (all sizes), TerminusBold (all sizes), TerminusBoldVGA (all sizes), VGA (sizes 8x16 and 16x32).
Lat38
Covers entirely ISO-8859-3 and ISO-8859-14. Suitable for Chichewa Esperanto, Irish, Maltese and Welsh.Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes) and VGA (sizes 8x16 and 16x32).
Lat7
Covers entirely ISO-8859-13. Suitable for Lithuanian, Latvian, Maori and Marshallese.Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes), Terminus (all sizes), TerminusBold (all sizes), TerminusBoldVGA (all sizes), VGA (sizes 8x16 and 16x32).
Thai
Supported language: Thai.Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes).
Uni1 (a big codeset)
Supports most of the Latin languages, the Slavic Cyrillic languages, Hebrew and barely Arabic.Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (sizes 8x15 and 8x16) and VGA (all sizes).
Uni2 (a big codeset)
Supports most of the Latin languages, the Slavic Cyrillic languages and Greek.Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes) and VGA (sizes 8x16 and 16x32).
Uni3 (a big codeset)
Supports most of the Latin and Cyrillic languages.Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (all sizes).
Vietnamese (a big codeset)
Supported language: Vietnamese.Completely covered by the following font faces: Fixed (sizes 8x13, 8x15, 8x16 and 8x18).
FILES
The standard location of the console-setup configuration file is /etc/default/console-setup. The keyboard configuration is in /etc/default/keyboard. Fonts that can be used with the variable FONT are usually installed in /usr/share/consolefonts/ or /usr/share/syscons/fonts/. Translation maps that can be used with the variable CONSOLE_MAP are usually installed in /usr/share/consoletrans/ or /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps/.NOTES
The aim of the Terminus font is to reduce the eyes-fatigue when one has to read a lot. Currently this font supports only the Latin, the Cyrillic and the Greek scripts (the Lat15, Lat2, Lat7, CyrAsia, CyrKoi, CyrSlav, Greek, Uni2 and Uni3 codesets).The fonts with font face TerminusBoldVGA are optimized for use with regular text video modes. They should not be used with framebuffer video modes. The fonts with font face TerminusBold are optimized for use with the framebuffer video modes. The fonts with font face Terminus can be used in all video modes.
SEE ALSO
setupcon(1), keyboard(5), setfont(1), consolechars(1), vidcontrol(1)
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