Re the keyboard: This is not a major annoyance but a better way would be nice.
I know how to change in xfce settings, the issue is the multiple clicking and scrolling to get there. It is preset to "use system defaults", you first have to change that.
Whatever I do, including installed console-data, dpkg-reconfigure of console-data, console-setup, keyboard-configuration locales - the keyboard defaults to US, even doing all that with GDM stopped and cycling through init 1 to restart most services. I also checked /etc/default/keyboard.
I'm mystified from where X/xfce gets (or fails to get) the "system default" The console does use the one I set up.
What does work also is (example with multiple layouts)
setxkbmap gb,us,de
You get a drop-down menu in th panel switcher (but that does not stick if gdm is restarted)
As-is, the file ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xf-perchannel-xml/keyboard-layout.xml does not exist. If you change to use xfce settings it gets created something like this:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<channel name="keyboard-layout" version="1.0">
<property name="Default" type="empty">
<property name="XkbDisable" type="bool" value="false"/>
<property name="XkbLayout" type="string" value="gb,us,de"/>
<property name="XkbVariant" type="string" value=""/>
</property>
</channel>