NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       setupcon [ option ]... [ variant ... ]

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@lml.bas.bg>, <zinoviev@debian.org>

console-setup                                       APR 2007                                         setupcon(1)