Thank you for the answer. OK, put as 1st line. .xinitrc is now: setxkbmap fr exec $1 Fail. Does not change the behavior for the initial login. And I think that if I wanted to login to a CLI shell rather than Xfce desktop it would not work either. Right? The useful setting should be set before X star...

PC with Windows 7 SP1 x64, 24GB, Intel i5-4690, Virtualbox 5.1.6, French Azerty keyboard. Try to install GhostBSD10.3-RELEASE-20160827-173859-xfce-i386.iso on a 32GB virtual disk. (N.B. experience with Unix started in 1982 on a Unix V7 PDP-11-34 @UCSD, then many old version of FreeBSD with CLI confi...