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 specified  in  ~/.keyboard  or
       /etc/default/keyboard.   The font configuration is specified in ~/.console-setup or /etc/default/console-
       setup.  Consult keyboard(5) and console-setup(5) for instructions how to configure these two files.

       If you have to switch often between different encodings, keyboards or languages, you can prepare  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.
       Create also 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: se‐
       tupcon and in order to configure the console for German you will use setupcon german.

OPTIONS

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

       -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 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  re‐
              quired  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 the keyboard and the font.  This option can be useful if
              you want to save the required files while the screen is controlled by a X server.

       -h, --help
              Display usage information.

       VARIANT
              Specifies which configuration file to use.  By default the configuration  files  of  setupcon  are
              named  console-setup  and  keyboard but if you use e.g.  chukchi as VARIANT then the configuration
              files will be console-setup.chukchi and keyboard.chukchi.  In this way you can have easy access to
              several different configurations - for example one for the Chukchi language and  another  for  the
              default configuration.

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)