Not so long ago I found the magic to get a UK type 5 set up correctly. (I don't remember how.) In XF86Config-4, I have: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "sun" Option "XkbModel" "type5" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" EndSection Have you tried something like that with "fi" instead of "gb"?