Keyboard settings

[Mike Massonnet]

Le Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:29:43 -0300,
"Thiago A." <thiagoaraujos at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Greetings to all,
> 
> I'm having problems with my keyboard in XFCE v.4.6... any setting I
> use in the keyboard settings (control panel) doesn't work or has any
> effect at all (as if it was always with us layout). If I use 'system
> defaults', it doesn't work too, even though it works in other desktop
> environments. I use a Brazilian ABNT2 model and br layout, but no
> candy for me.
> 
> xfce4-keyboard-settings is running in the background. One interesting 
> particularity is, if I use the 'configuration test area' in the
> keyboard settings, my keys get all scrambled, it gets even worse. I
> don't know what to do... I finally found the perfect work environment
> for me, but this problem is killing everything. I couldn't find
> anything substantial in Google. I'm an arch linux user, with the
> latest packages. Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thiago

Did you check with
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide#Set_the_keyboard_layout

?

Mike