I had the same problem recently, and was advised off list to do the following:
dpkg-reconfigure console-data It sets the console keyboard and thus the default for X. Brendan -- Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-390476; Room F2-025 x 3147 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ul.ie/sociology/brendan.halpin.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]