diff --git a/archlabs-installer b/archlabs-installer
index 6285555..6bdb6aa 100755
--- a/archlabs-installer
+++ b/archlabs-installer
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 # shellcheck disable=SC2086,SC2046,SC2254,SC2164
 
-VER=2.1.49
+VER=2.1.50
 
 # default values {
 
@@ -625,32 +625,43 @@ select_mkuser()
 
 select_keymap()
 {
-	dlg KEYMAP menu "Keyboard" "$_keymap" \
-		us English    cm    English     gb English    au English    gh English \
-		za English    ng    English     ca French    'cd' French    gn French \
-		tg French     fr    French      de German     at German     ch German \
-		es Spanish    latam Spanish     br Portuguese pt Portuguese ma Arabic \
-		sy Arabic     ara   Arabic      ua Ukrainian  cz Czech      ru Russian \
-		sk Slovak     nl    Dutch       it Italian    hu Hungarian  cn Chinese \
-		tw Taiwanese  vn    Vietnamese  kr Korean     jp Japanese   th Thai \
-		la Lao        pl    Polish      se Swedish    is Icelandic 'fi' Finnish \
-		dk Danish     be    Belgian     in Indian     al Albanian   am Armenian \
-		bd Bangla     ba    Bosnian    'bg' Bulgarian dz Berber     mm Burmese \
-		hr Croatian   gr    Greek       il Hebrew     ir Persian    iq Iraqi \
-		af Afghani    fo    Faroese     ge Georgian   ee Estonian   kg Kyrgyz \
-		kz Kazakh     lt    Lithuanian  mt Maltese    mn Mongolian  ro Romanian \
-		no Norwegian  rs    Serbian     si Slovenian  tj Tajik      lk Sinhala \
-		tr Turkish    uz    Uzbek       ie Irish      pk Urdu      'mv' Dhivehi \
-		np Nepali     et    Amharic     sn Wolof      ml Bambara    tz Swahili \
-		ke Swahili    bw    Tswana      ph Filipino   my Malay      tm Turkmen \
-		id Indonesian bt    Dzongkha    lv Latvian    md Moldavian mao Maori \
-		by Belarusian az    Azerbaijani mk Macedonian kh Khmer     epo Esperanto \
-		me Montenegrin || return 1
+	if [[ ! -f /tmp/xkeys ]]; then
+		dlg KEYMAP menu "Keyboard" "$_keymap" \
+			us English    cm    English     gb English    au English    gh English \
+			za English    ng    English     ca French    'cd' French    gn French \
+			tg French     fr    French      de German     at German     ch German \
+			es Spanish    latam Spanish     br Portuguese pt Portuguese ma Arabic \
+			sy Arabic     ara   Arabic      ua Ukrainian  cz Czech      ru Russian \
+			sk Slovak     nl    Dutch       it Italian    hu Hungarian  cn Chinese \
+			tw Taiwanese  vn    Vietnamese  kr Korean     jp Japanese   th Thai \
+			la Lao        pl    Polish      se Swedish    is Icelandic 'fi' Finnish \
+			dk Danish     be    Belgian     in Indian     al Albanian   am Armenian \
+			bd Bangla     ba    Bosnian    'bg' Bulgarian dz Berber     mm Burmese \
+			hr Croatian   gr    Greek       il Hebrew     ir Persian    iq Iraqi \
+			af Afghani    fo    Faroese     ge Georgian   ee Estonian   kg Kyrgyz \
+			kz Kazakh     lt    Lithuanian  mt Maltese    mn Mongolian  ro Romanian \
+			no Norwegian  rs    Serbian     si Slovenian  tj Tajik      lk Sinhala \
+			tr Turkish    uz    Uzbek       ie Irish      pk Urdu      'mv' Dhivehi \
+			np Nepali     et    Amharic     sn Wolof      ml Bambara    tz Swahili \
+			ke Swahili    bw    Tswana      ph Filipino   my Malay      tm Turkmen \
+			id Indonesian bt    Dzongkha    lv Latvian    md Moldavian mao Maori \
+			by Belarusian az    Azerbaijani mk Macedonian kh Khmer     epo Esperanto \
+			me Montenegrin || return 1
 
-	if [[ $CMAPS == *"$KEYMAP "* ]]; then
-		CMAP="$KEYMAP"
+		echo "$KEYMAP" > /tmp/xkeys
 	else
-		dlg CMAP menu "Console Keymap" "$_vconsole" $CMAPS || return 1
+		KEYMAP="$(< /tmp/xkeys)"
+	fi
+
+	if [[ ! -f /tmp/ckeys ]]; then
+		if [[ $CMAPS == *"$KEYMAP "* ]]; then
+			CMAP="$KEYMAP"
+		else
+			dlg CMAP menu "Console Keymap" "$_vconsole" $CMAPS || return 1
+		fi
+		echo "$CMAP" > /tmp/ckeys
+	else
+		CMAP="$(< /tmp/ckeys)"
 	fi
 
 	if [[ $TERM == 'linux' ]]; then
@@ -3313,7 +3324,10 @@ else
 	done
 fi
 
-msg "Welcome to the $DIST Installer" "$_welcome"
+if [[ ! -f /tmp/welcomed ]]; then
+	msg "Welcome to the $DIST Installer" "$_welcome"
+	touch /tmp/welcomed
+fi
 
 if ! select_keymap; then
 	clear