WSCONS.CONF(5)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to the wscons.conf(5) page from the File Formats Manual 💖 — this one is all about wscons.conf, aka the workstation console config file. no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

wscons.conf

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

The wscons.conf file defines parameters regarding to the workstation console (wscons). It's made of lines that start with a keyword and one or more arguments. Empty lines and lines starting with a hash (#) are ignored, periodt. ✨

This config file is used by the /etc/rc.d/wscons script, which parses /etc/wscons.conf and runs wsconscfg(8), wsconsctl(8), and/or wsfontload(8) as configured. Wanna know how to enable the rc.d script? That's what rc.conf(5) is for, iykyk. 🫶

The following keywords and arguments are recognized:

• font name width height enc file — loads a font via wsfontload(8). name gives the font a name you can use later; width specifies the width of a font character in pixel; height is the same, just for the font characters' height. enc declares the font's encoding — peep the description on wsfontload(8)'s -e option for more detail. file gives the absolute path to the font file. See wsfontload(8) for more info. 🎀
• screen idx scr emul — adds and configures virtual console number idx using a screen type of scr (e.g. 80x25) and a emul terminal emulation (e.g. vt100). See wsconscfg(8) for further parameter description. 🖥️
• keyboard kbd — attaches and configures keyboard kbd using wsconscfg -k. If kbd is - or auto, the first free keyboard will be used. See wsconscfg(8) for more information. ⌨️
• encoding enc — sets the keyboard map to the given language code enc, using wsconsctl -w encoding=enc. The map must be supported by the keyboard driver in use and must be compiled into the kernel. See the keyboard driver's manpage (e.g., pckbd(4), ukbd(4)) for details. 🗺️
• mapfile file — parses the contents of file, which contains a keyboard map per line, and calls wsconsctl -w map+= for each line. See wsconsctl(8) for details. 📄
• mux idx — attaches and configures keyboard/mouse multiplexors, using wsconscfg -m idx. See wsconscfg(8) for more information. 🖱️
• setvar dev var val — sets arbitrary wscons variable var to value val for the specified control device dev. Can be used for direct modification of wscons(4) variables when no other keywords are suitable. See wsconsctl(8) for more information. 🔧

Command arguments can be specified as -, which makes default values come into effect as described in the documentation of the utilities. lowkey handy. 💅

🦋 FILES 🦋

• /etc/wscons.conf

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• wscons(4)
• wsconscfg(8)
• wsconsctl(8)
• wsfontload(8)

mwah 💖 this page is brought to you by Debian, dated November 22, 2008, and it's the WSCONS.CONF(5) page — bye bestie, go configure your console and slay ✨👑