With Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
in the config the logfile has (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=250, rate=15 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000809" (00000809) (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (United Kingdom)" (809), type "4" Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc105" Layout = "gb" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)" Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap I've just Googled for "Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap" and in newsgroups and it looks like the problem is very very common and possibly not specific to the cygwin port of xfree86. So I am not alone. As I said the config file thing worked on a fairly (few month old) release of cygwin X. Jon