Hello, the problem with xkb has been solved: It seems to be related to the version of xlibs. Downgrading from xlibs_6.8.2.dfsg.1-7_all.deb to xlibs_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14_all.deb solved it. But if I use the automatic start at bootup compared to my shell script, only one console (tty1) is available. Could this be related to the use of -c /dev/vcs in one case and --console-node=/dev/cons /dev/vcs in the other? Thanks Andi