There are a number of interacting issues surrounding XKB at this point, but the bottom line is that many (most? all?) users using non-US keyboards are pretty much dead in the water right now. Putting aside issues with libxklavier and keyboard options, the console (non-X) keyboard maps, and the keyboard switching applet, it's simply not possible to select certain keyboards which are in widespread use. Here's one example: in FC4 and before, the de-facto standard French Canadian keyboard was identified as ca_enhanced, and it worked reasonably well. (Note: This is the keyboard that is shipped by Dell, IBM, HP, etc, and the keyboard that you you would buy at a Future Shop/Best Buy in Quebec. English Canadian users (such as myself) use the "us" keyboard layout. All other "Canadian keyboards" are corner cases). With the current set of XKB data, this keyboard is identified as ca(fr), and it can be selected manually: setxkbmap "ca(fr)" When selected in this way, they keyboard works perfectly (except for RightAlt-E which is labelled as Euro on newer versions of the keyboard). However, this keyboard option cannot be selected at installation time, nor can it be correctly selected after installation using the KDE or Gnome applets, which expose the corner-case keyboards but don't provide an option for this one. I'm assuming (from browsing Bugzilla) that similar problems exist for some of the other international keyboards. (It's unclear to me where the current (X11R7) set of xkb maps came from. They're not the legacy maps that shipped with 6.8.2, but they're not the current xkeyboard-config maps either - perhaps they're a snapshot of older xkeyboard-config data, since they seem closer to xkeyboard-config than they do to the 6.8.2 set). What needs to be done to get this working for FC5? -- Chris Tyler