OT: lightweight DE's

[Bruce Marshall]

On Tuesday 14 April 2009, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> I might be persuaded to change  but I still really need, and like, several
> KDE apps. I have looked at Xubuntu but I don't like the XFCE DE (there are
> problems getting it to change keyboard layouts for other languages).

Have you looked under  System  --->   system settings --> regional & language 
--> keyboard layout     (in XFCE)

Seems to be all there.