NOTES for XFree86 users: ------------------------ If you are running XFree86, it is most likely, that you have only a static variant of libXxf86misc installed. That might cause problems with the keyboard plugin. So, in order to create a shared variant of -lXxf86misc, become root and type the following commands: cd /usr/X11R6/lib ld --whole-archive -share -o libXxf86misc.so.1 libXxf86misc.a ln -s libXxf86misc.so.1 libXxf86misc.so After that you need to rebuild and reinstall the keyboard_plugin and restart xfce-mcs-manager. If you have any problems with the above, please mail to benedikt.meurer@unix-ag.uni-siegen.de. The same applies for the libXxf86vm, libXrender and libXrandr.