diff --git a/config.example b/config.example
index fd748cf..8241967 100644
--- a/config.example
+++ b/config.example
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ _rofi () {
     rofi -i -width 700 -no-levenshtein-sort "$@"
 }
 
+# keyboard layout (set this to your actual layout. E.g. keyboard="de us"
+keyboard=us
 
 # fields to be used
 URL_field='url'
diff --git a/rofi-pass b/rofi-pass
index 4c405eb..bfc022d 100755
--- a/rofi-pass
+++ b/rofi-pass
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ help="Alt+h"
 switch="Alt+x"
 insert_pass="Alt+n"
 
+setxkbmap "${keyboard}"
+
 # get all password files and create an array
 list_passwords() {
   cd "${root}" || exit