wsconsctl.conf(5)

wsconsctl.conf5

Wsconsctl variables to set at system startup

Overview

wsconsctl.conf contains a list of wsconsctl(8) variable assignments that is read at system startup by rc(8) during the boot sequence.

The file is made up of wsconsctl(8) variable assignments (variable=value) with comments designated by a hash mark (‘#’).

Files

/etc/wsconsctl.conf
/etc/examples/wsconsctl.conf

Examples

To load a Russian keyboard encoding, one would use the following line:

keyboard.encoding=ru

To set the screen burner timeout to 60 seconds, the following can be used:

display.screen_off=60000

Releases

52 releases since OpenBSD 3.0; the text changed 5 times.

  1. 3.0–3.3
  2. 3.4
  3. 3.5–4.1
  4. 4.2–6.4
  5. 6.5–6.6
  6. 6.7–8.0

History

A wsconsctl.conf file first appeared in OpenBSD 3.0.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.