I have not been using Virtual Box, its a VMWARE vm of etch, the selections he offers are USA international, 4 types of dvorak, and 1 macintosh. The mac layout seems to work now, but I am worried that something weird is mapped somewhere. I did not do any install of the VM, and I'm running windows as the host. Inside the guest VM, I don't have a USA keyboard, my guess is because the German guy who made the VM wanted to shrink it down and figured international english would be okay. This is where I got the VM:
http://www.visoracle.com/download/debian/
I am inside Gnome, and using a standards USA keyboard. I used the keyboard manager in gnome, the problem is that he didn't include the keymapping for en_US, I can't even set my locale to en_US its set on en_ZA....
I guess someone could just copy their en_US keymapping and send it to me? As long as I know where to put it, I'm sure it will be okay. I'd also like to know what else I need to import to allow me to set my locale to en_US.
Thanks for the help.