This issue doesn't occur in Intrepid Alpha6 for me. As for LTS it's
still broken unless the X conf is modified by hand or autologin is
disabled. The solution is somewhere out there, but I couldn't find any
in freedesktop or other's bugzillas.
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gdm and keyboard layout switch
Hello Gwyn,
try to:
1. Right-click the keyboard indicator applet
2. Select 'Keyboard preferences'
3. Select 'Layouts' tab and click 'Reset to defaults'. Check that all the
configs are gone
4. Log out/Log in (restart X)
Editting the xorg.conf didn't help me either, but resetting the defaults did