-v

Be more verbose. Use this option if something goes wrong or while experimenting with the configura‐tion files.

-k

Setup the keyboard only, do not setup the font or the terminal. On Linux it is enough to do this con‐figuration only once.

-f

Setup the font only, do not setup the keyboard or the terminal. On Linux this configuration should berepeated each time a new console driver is activated (for example when the frame buffer becomes ac‐tive).

-t

Setup the terminal only, do not setup the keyboard or the font.

--current-tty

Setup the only the current virtual terminal.

--force

Do not check whether we are on the console. Notice that you can be forced to hard-reboot your computerif you run setupcon with this option and the screen is controlled by a X server.

--save-only

The same as --save, but does not setup anything. This option can be useful if you want to save the re‐quired files while the screen is controlled by a X server.

--save-keyboard

For use by initrd builders. Do not configure anything. Save an usable keyboard layout in FILE.

--setup-dir

For use by initrd builders. Do not configure anything. Arrange in the directory DIR everything neces‐sary in order to configure the console. The file DIR/morefiles lists all binaries the initrd builderhas to install in the initrd image. All other files in DIR have to be copied unchanged in the initrd.In order to configure the console one has to run the script DIR/bin/setupcon.

-h

Display usage information.FILES~/.console-setup~/.keyboard/etc/default/console-setup/etc/default/keyboard/etc/default/console-setup.VARIANT/etc/default/keyboard.VARIANT/etc/console-setup/