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WSCONSCTL(8)            NetBSD System Manager's Manual            WSCONSCTL(8)


NAME

     wsconsctl - get or set wscons state


SYNOPSIS

     wsconsctl [-kdm] [-f file] [-n] -a
     wsconsctl [-kdm] [-f file] [-n] name ...
     wsconsctl [-kdm] [-f file] [-n] -w name=value ...
     wsconsctl [-kdm] [-f file] [-n] -w name+=value ...


DESCRIPTION

     The wsconsctl command displays or sets various wscons system driver vari-
     ables.  If a list of variables is present on the command line, then ws-
     consctl prints the current value of those variables for the specified de-
     vice.

     -a      is used to specify all variables for the device.

     -w      wsconsctl attempts to set or modify the specified variables to
             the given values.  The value can be specified as either an abso-
             lute value, by using the `=' symbol or as a relative value, by
             using the `+=' symbol. See the EXAMPLES section for more details.

     -f file
             is used to specify an alternative control device.

     -n      suppresses the printing of the variable name in the output - only
             the value will appear.

     -k      selects the keyboard portion of the device (this is the default).

     -d      selects the display portion of the device.

     -m      selects the mouse portion of the device.

     The wsconsctl utility can be used to view and modify aspects of the key-
     board, display and mouse, using the standard, machine-independent work-
     station console device driver wscons(4).

     The keyboard type can be modified, the keyboard bell's pitch, period and
     duration can be modified, the typematic value can be changed, and the
     keyboard encoding can be modified to switch keys, should the user find a
     keyboard's default layout difficult to use.  The keyboard types and other
     relevant definitions, can all be found in the
     /usr/include/dev/wscons/wsconsio.h file.

     The mouse types are defined in the /usr/include/dev/wscons/wsconsio.h
     file.

     The keyboard types, and the height, width, depth (bits per pixel), color
     map size, and colormap are defined in the
     /usr/include/dev/wscons/wsconsio.h file. There are also definitions re-
     lating to video control and cursor control, which are not applicable to
     all display types, and to text emulation and graphics (mapped) modes.

     There are currently keyboard encodings for the following countries: user-
     defined, US, German, Danish, Italian, French, British and Japanese.


FILES

     /dev/wskbd0    keyboard control device

     /dev/wsmouse0  mouse control device

     /dev/ttyE0     display control device


EXAMPLES

     The following are just a few examples of wsconsctl and its functionality.

           wsconsctl -w encoding=uk

     Sets a UK keyboard encoding.

           wsconsctl -w map+="keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L"

     Modifies the current keyboard encoding so that, when the Caps Lock key is
     pressed, the same encoding sequence as Left Control is sent.  For a full
     list of keysyms, and keycodes, please refer to the
     /usr/include/dev/wscons/wsksymdef.h file.

           wsconsctl -w encoding=us.swapctrlcaps

     sets a US keyboard encoding, with the Caps Lock and Left Control keys
     swapped. The .swapctrlcaps encoding does not work for all national key-
     board encodings.  For most purposes, the ability to set the value re-
     turned by the Caps Lock key is enough - see the previous example for de-
     tails.

           wsconsctl -w bell.pitch=1200

     Sets the bell pitch to be 1200, whilst

           wsconsctl -w bell.pitch+=200

     adds 200 to the current pitch of the bell.


SEE ALSO

     pckbd(4), wscons(4), wsconscfg(8), wsfontload(8)


HISTORY

     The wsconsctl command first appeared in NetBSD 1.4.

NetBSD 1.6                     December 24, 1998                             2