<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:25 PM, pao_drop <<a href="mailto:pao_drop@bluewin.ch" target="_blank">pao_drop@bluewin.ch</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hello! I am trying to install Xubuntu 12.04 on an old PC. Everything works fine, except that I am unable to find the Swiss-french keyboard in the keyboard layout list. Since I am living in Switzerland and speaking - and typing- french, this is a absolute MUST for me. The command: setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout ch -variant fr works fine, albeit obviously only for the current session. This in my opinion means that the swiss-french layout IS present somewhere in the system. But how do I get it permanently, not being able to use the desktop application? I have tried editing the /etc/default/keyboard file from: XKBMODEL = "pc105" XKBLAYOUT = "ch" XKBVARIANT = "" XKBOPTIONS ="" to: XKBMODEL = "pc105" XKBLAYOUT = "ch" XKBVARIANT = "fr" XKBOPTIONS ="" but to no avail! What am I overlooking?? Regards, Pao -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> Hi. You have 2 options from within Settings Manager: 1. go to Session and Startup and add the setxkbmap command as an autostart app OR 2. go to Keyboard and then Layout and try to set it up from there