1.\" $NetBSD: wscons.conf.5,v 1.20 2009/03/11 19:38:08 joerg Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 2000-2008 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation 7.\" by Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>. 8.\" 9.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 10.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 11.\" are met: 12.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 14.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 15.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 16.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS 19.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED 20.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 21.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS 22.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 23.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 24.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 25.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 26.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 27.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 28.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.Dd November 22, 2008 31.Dt WSCONS.CONF 5 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm wscons.conf 35.Nd workstation console config file 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.Nm 38.Sh DESCRIPTION 39The 40.Nm 41file defines parameters regarding to the workstation console (wscons). 42The file consists of lines starting with a keyword, and one or more arguments. 43Empty lines and lines starting with a hash 44.Pq Dq \&# 45are ignored. 46.Pp 47This configuration file is used by the 48.Pa /etc/rc.d/wscons 49script which parses 50.Pa /etc/wscons.conf 51and runs 52.Xr wsconscfg 8 , 53.Xr wsconsctl 8 , 54and/or 55.Xr wsfontload 8 56as configured. 57See 58.Xr rc.conf 5 59for details on enabling the rc.d script. 60.Pp 61The following keywords and arguments are recognized: 62.Bl -tag -width keyboard 63.It Sy font Ar name Ar width Ar height Ar enc Ar file 64Used to load a font via 65.Xr wsfontload 8 . 66.Ar name 67gives a font name that can be used later, 68.Ar width 69can be used to specify the width of a font character in pixel, 70.Ar height 71is the same, just for the font characters' height. 72.Ar enc 73is used to declare the font's encoding, see the description on 74.Xr wsfontload 8 Ns 's 75.Fl e 76option for more detail. 77.Ar file 78gives the absolute path to the font file. 79See 80.Xr wsfontload 8 81for more information. 82. 83.It Sy screen Ar idx Ar scr Ar emul 84Add and configure virtual console number 85.Ar idx 86using a screen type of 87.Ar scr 88(e.g. 80x25) and a 89.Ar emul 90terminal emulation (e.g. vt100). See 91.Xr wsconscfg 8 92for further parameter description. 93. 94.It Sy keyboard Ar kbd 95Attach and configure keyboard 96.Ar kbd 97using 98.Dq Li "wsconscfg -k" . 99If 100.Ar kbd 101is 102.Sq Li - 103or 104.Sq Li auto , 105the first free keyboard will be used. 106See 107.Xr wsconscfg 8 108for more information. 109. 110.It Sy encoding Ar enc 111Set the keyboard map to the given language code 112.Ar enc , 113using 114.Dq Li "wsconsctl -w encoding=enc" . 115The map must be supported by the keyboard driver in use and must be 116compiled into the kernel. 117See the keyboard driver's manpage (e.g., 118.Xr pckbd 4 , 119.Xr ukbd 4 ) 120for details. 121. 122.It Sy mapfile Ar file 123Parses the contents of 124.Ar file , 125which contains a keyboard map per line, and calls 126.Dq Li "wsconsctl -w map+=" 127for each line. 128See 129.Xr wsconsctl 8 130for details. 131. 132.It Sy mux Ar idx 133Used to attach and configure keyboard/mouse multiplexors, using 134.Dq Li "wsconscfg -m idx" . 135See 136.Xr wsconscfg 8 137for more information. 138. 139.It Sy setvar Ar dev Ar var Ar val 140Set arbitrary wscons variable 141.Ar var 142to value 143.Ar val 144for specified control device 145.Ar dev . 146Can be used for direct modification of 147.Xr wscons 4 148variables, when no other keywords are suitable. 149See 150.Xr wsconsctl 8 151for more information. 152.El 153.Pp 154Command arguments can be specified as 155.Dq - 156which makes default values come into effect as described in the 157documentation of the utilities. 158.Sh FILES 159.Bl -tag -width /etc/wscons.conf -compact 160.It Pa /etc/wscons.conf 161.El 162.Sh SEE ALSO 163.Xr wscons 4 , 164.Xr wsconscfg 8 , 165.Xr wsconsctl 8 , 166.Xr wsfontload 8 167