WSCONSCTL.CONF(5)

🌸 wsconsctl.conf(5) — File Formats Manual, but make it cute 🌸

💖 NAME 💖

wsconsctl.conf — the list of wsconsctl variables to set at system startup, bestie. It’s giving “boot-time glow-up” and honestly? Obsessed.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so wsconsctl.conf contains a list of wsconsctl(8) variable assignments. rc(8) reads it at system startup during the boot sequence — literal main character energy at boot, fr fr.

The file is made up of wsconsctl(8) variable assignments in the form variable=value, with comments designated by a hash mark (#). That’s the whole vibe. Simple. Slay.

📁 FILES 📁

• /etc/wsconsctl.conf
• /etc/examples/wsconsctl.conf

🧪 EXAMPLES 🧪

Wanna load a Russian keyboard encoding? Drop this line in, no cap:

keyboard.encoding=ru

Want to set the screen burner timeout to 60 seconds? This one is literally made for that:

display.screen_off=60000

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Go hang out with rc(8) and wsconsctl(8) — the supporting cast that makes the magic happen.

🕰️ HISTORY 🕰️

A wsconsctl.conf file first appeared in OpenBSD 3.0. Vintage, but still iconic.

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Source/version + date sign-off: Debian, February 10, 2020, WSCONSCTL.CONF(5) 🫶💅