Setting keyboard layout with Mate Desktop

Hi everyone,
I use now Mate Desktop following the wiki <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MATE>.
Since mate-display-manager doesn't work, I use SliM with auto login.
I'm using french dvorak keyboard (bépo), and I put it in System > Preferences > Keyboard, and removed the other one. But it's not working, it's using default US keyboard.
Does anyone had the same issue ?
Thanks.

The DE doesn't matter if you change the keyboard layout in Xorg.
Here's my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Keyboard Defaults"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbLayout" "us, ro(std)"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle, grp_led:scroll, terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection
Make sure you don't have another keyboard section in some other xorg.conf (/etc/xorg.conf or /etc/X11/xorg.conf) or in a different *.conf file in the "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/" folder. Because one may inhibit the other.

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@chris_l: Thank you for your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/01-keyboard-layout.conf.
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rules: evdev
model: evdev
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compat: complete
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model: evdev
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geometry: pc(pc104)
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xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
xkb_types { include "complete" };
xkb_compat { include "complete" };
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xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" };

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