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<title>vconsole.conf</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
You can safely mask this file if you want to avoid this kind of initialization.
</para>
- <para>The basic file format of the
- <filename>vconsole.conf</filename> is a newline-separated list of
- environment-like shell-compatible variable assignments. It is
- possible to source the configuration from shell scripts, however,
- beyond mere variable assignments no shell features are supported,
- allowing applications to read the file without implementing a
- shell compatible execution engine.</para>
+ <para>The format of <filename>vconsole.conf</filename> is a newline-separated list of environment-like
+ shell-compatible variable assignments, ignoring comments and empty lines. It is possible to source the
+ configuration from shell scripts, however, beyond mere variable assignments no shell features are
+ supported, allowing applications to read the file without implementing a shell compatible execution
+ engine. See
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>os-release</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for a
+ detailed description of the format.</para>
<para>Note that the kernel command line options
<varname>vconsole.keymap=</varname>,
<term><varname>KEYMAP=</varname></term>
<term><varname>KEYMAP_TOGGLE=</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Configures the key mapping table for the keyboard.
- <varname>KEYMAP=</varname> defaults to <literal>us</literal> if not set. The
- <varname>KEYMAP_TOGGLE=</varname> can be used to configure a second toggle keymap and is by
- default unset.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Configures the key mapping table for the keyboard. <varname>KEYMAP=</varname>
+ defaults to <literal>&DEFAULT_KEYMAP;</literal> if not set. Specially, if <literal>@kernel</literal>
+ is specified, no keymap will be loaded, i.e. the kernel's default keymap is used. The
+ <varname>KEYMAP_TOGGLE=</varname> can be used to configure a second toggle keymap and is by default
+ unset.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>