diff -p -up dia-0.97.1/app/app_procs.c.diagtkrc dia-0.97.1/app/app_procs.c
--- dia-0.97.1/app/app_procs.c.diagtkrc	2010-01-24 17:56:08.000000000 +0100
+++ dia-0.97.1/app/app_procs.c	2010-01-25 10:18:39.000000000 +0100
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ handle_initial_diagram(const char *input
 		       const char *outdir);
 
 static void create_user_dirs(void);
+static void create_user_files(void);
 static PluginInitResult internal_plugin_init(PluginInfo *info);
 static gboolean handle_all_diagrams(GSList *files, char *export_file_name,
 				    char *export_file_format, char *size, char *show_layers,
@@ -687,6 +688,7 @@ app_init (int argc, char **argv)
   static char *show_layers = NULL;
   gboolean made_conversions = FALSE;
   GSList *files = NULL;
+  gchar *rc;
   static const gchar **filenames = NULL;
   int i = 0;
 
@@ -891,6 +893,12 @@ app_init (int argc, char **argv)
 
   if (dia_is_interactive) {
     create_user_dirs();
+    create_user_files();
+
+    rc = dia_config_filename("diagtkrc");
+    gtk_rc_parse(rc); 
+    g_free(rc);
+ 
 
     if (!nosplash)
       app_splash_init("");
@@ -1159,6 +1167,25 @@ app_exit(void)
   return TRUE;
 }
 
+static void create_user_files(void)
+{
+  gchar *rc = NULL;
+
+  rc = dia_config_filename("diagtkrc");
+
+  /* If the file does not exist, we put in our defaults */
+  if (!g_file_test(rc, G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS)) {
+    FILE *f;
+
+    /* Never mind if it fails */
+    if ((f = fopen(rc, "w"))!= NULL) {
+      fprintf(f, "gtk-can-change-accels = 1");
+      fclose(f);
+    }
+  }
+  g_free(rc);
+}
+
 static void create_user_dirs(void)
 {
   gchar *dir, *subdir;