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Misbah

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Registered: 2008-02-27

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Few rc.conf questions

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jbromley

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2007-02-04

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Re: Few rc.conf questions

for Keymap, why do I use "us" instead of us.map.gz? Any difference?

No difference, loadkeys knows to loop for us.map or us.map.gz. You would end up with the same setup using either us or us.map.gz.

for Consolefont, I presume this just changes the font in vc, and has no affect on fonts anywhere within the desktop environment once X is started? How can I visibly browse these fonts, and what fonts are allowed to be installed? Ones retrieved from pacman only? Do I just drop them in the /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts folder?

Yes, CONSOLEFONT only affects the font for the consoles (imagine that!) It has no effect on X fonts. I'm not sure if there is any software to browse the fonts on your system, but there probably is. To see the fonts with standard tools you'd have to go to a console and then run setfont (see "man setfont" for more details.) Linux uses the psf format for its console fonts, so presumably you could download any PSF font, put it in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts. (Actually it will accept some other legacy formats as well, I just don't know what they are.) Pacman does have some nice console fonts, like terminus, but any PSF font should work.

what does Consolemap set exactly?

I'm a bit hazy on this one myself, but it does the job of translating 8-bit (ASCII/ISO-8859, etc.) program output to 16-bit Unicode values so the output can be displayed on a UTF-8 console. Usually you won't need this as most good console fonts will have a Unicode font map built in. See the UNICODE FONT MAPS section of "man setfont" for more details.

USECOLOR...What portion of the vconsole does this affect?

Like the rc.conf states, it colorizes messages during startup. I assume this means that this determines if color is used once the initcpio is booted and init is launched.

Regards,
j