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WSCONS.CONF(5)		    BSD File Formats Manual		WSCONS.CONF(5)

NAME
     wscons.conf — workstation console config file

SYNOPSIS
     wscons.conf

DESCRIPTION
     The wscons.conf file defines parameters regarding to the workstation con‐
     sole (wscons).  The file consists of lines starting with a keyword, and
     one or more arguments.  Empty lines and lines starting with a hash (“#”)
     are ignored.

     This configuration 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.  See rc.conf(5) for details on enabling the
     rc.d script.

     The following keywords and arguments are recognized:

     font name width height enc file
	       Used to load a font via wsfontload(8).  name gives a font name
	       that can be used later, width can be used to specify the width
	       of a font character in pixel, height is the same, just for the
	       font characters' height.	 enc is used to declare the font's
	       encoding, see 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 information.

     screen idx scr emul
	       Add and configure 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
	       Attach and configure 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
	       Set 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   Used to attach and configure keyboard/mouse multiplexors, using
	       “wsconscfg -m idx”.  See wsconscfg(8) for more information.

     setvar dev var val
	       Set arbitrary wscons variable var to value val for 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.

FILES
     /etc/wscons.conf

SEE ALSO
     wscons(4), wsconscfg(8), wsconsctl(8), wsfontload(8)

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