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 consoles

`systemd-vconsole-setup.service`

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

## Description

`systemd-vconsole-setup` is a helper used to prepare either all virtual consoles, or — if the optional TTY parameter is provided — a specific one. When the system is booting up it's called by systemd-udevd 8 during vtconsole subsystem initialization. Systemd also calls it internally as needed via `systemd-vconsole-setup.service`. The helper calls loadkeys 1 and setfont 8 internally.

You may want to use this helper whenever you change `vconsole.conf` to refresh the settings on your consoles — either through the `systemctl restart` / `systemctl start` command or directly through the executable.

See vconsole.conf 5 for information about the configuration files and kernel command line options understood by this program.

## See Also

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