Hi, I've found what I think is a better workaround for the Xephyr problem seen running sugar-emulator, in which keyboard mappings are not inherited from the main X server. One workaround known so far is to go into the Terminal activity and run setxkbmap us (or whatever keyboard map & options you want). However, that doesn't fix all keys, in particular it doesn't fix the arrow keys (at least for me). What does work is to execute, in a host shell outside of the sugar emulator, xkbcomp $DISPLAY :100 replacing :100 with the actual X display of the Xephyr X server; $DISPLAY is of course the name of the encompassing X display in which Xephyr runs as a client. This copies the XKB settings from the encompassing display to the display under Xephyr. You have to run xkbcomp after having sent some keyboard events to Xephyr -- if you do it before that, it seems not to work for some reason that I don't understand well. That leads me to a really hackish patch to: sugar-jhbuild/source/sugar/bin/sugar-emulator adding a -k option that does the xkbcomp to copy the XKB settings to Xephyr before starting sugar. The most awkward bit is that I had to add code to put an ugly little window in the Xephyr server waiting for an initial keystroke before calling xkbcomp. I know very little about X; maybe someone can figure out how to avoid that bit. If you use the patch, start sugar-emulator as follows: $ ./sugar-jhbuild run sugar-emulator -k & Briefly tested only under Fedora 11. Enjoy, [1] <a href="http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/342">http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/342</a>