That worked. It's just odd that there is no seperate tab at the keyboard preferences from the settings menu for layout, I have seen that lmost on any xfce install.
To change my layout (as in loadkeys be-latin1), should I edit /etc/sysconfig/console or somewhere else? /bin/rc.local?
For X, I could use "setxbk be" in the user's ~/.zlogin or is this done somewhere else?