Franois Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote: >Though ~/config/settings/Keyboard_settings certainly isn't a flattened BMessage >more a C struct or something, sadly : > >[revol@patrick /boot/home/devel]$ ./dumpbm ~/config/settings/Keyboard_settings >BMessage: what = (0x0, or 0) try: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/open-beos/input_kit/source/lib/kb_mouse_driver.h it contains: // keyboard settings info, as kept in settings file typedef struct { bigtime_t key_repeat_delay; int32 key_repeat_rate; } kb_settings; #define kb_settings_file "Keyboard_settings" Only problem: the file is 20 byte on my system, while this struct is only 12 byte This file also descibes the mouse settings file! good luck. Marcus