diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5fe857f..732d2d9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ Also included is an import script for keepass2 databases. It's the same script t
 ## FAQ
 
 * rofi pass prints garbage instead of my actual passes
-** Set your keyboard layout in config
+** Make sure to run `setxkbmap <language> <variant>` at the start of your Xorg session.
 
 ## Alternative
 
diff --git a/rofi-pass b/rofi-pass
index 53e5de5..e5a66c4 100755
--- a/rofi-pass
+++ b/rofi-pass
@@ -561,13 +561,6 @@ if [[ ! -d "$HOME/.cache/rofi-pass" ]]; then
   mkdir "$HOME/.cache/rofi-pass"
 fi
 
-if [[ -n $keyboard ]]; then
-  setxkbmap ${keyboard}
-else
-  keyboard=$(setxkbmap -query | grep layout | grep -oE '[^: ]+$')
-  setxkbmap ${keyboard}
-fi
-
 # set help color
 if [[ $help_color == "" ]]; then
   help_color=$(rofi -dump-xresources | grep 'rofi.color.normal' | gawk -F ',' '/,/{gsub(/ /, "", $2); print $2}')