Hi, looking in the mail archives I found that setxkbmap is needed to setup the keyboard layout.
so I created a ~/.xinitrc like this : . /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc setxkbmap -layout fr It seems to function (no error message on console) but my keyboard is US. if I issue 'setxkbmap -layout fr' once, I get : Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property Use defaults:rules - 'xfree86' model - 'pc101' layout - 'us' if I issue it a second time, I get no message and the layout is set up. Comments ? ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com