i am on the sidux dev team and we have just released a sidux-xfce besides the kde variants. to our dismay xkb-plugin does not really work as it should. installing it first time, having de and us in xorg.conf it works fine, flags/text are correct and switching between them is reliable. after first reboot the is a different behaviour: us flag is shown with default de kbd layout and there is no chance to switch anymore. xorg.conf is unchanged. (has de & us) sidux is debian sid xfce version: 4.4.2.1 xkb-plugin version 0.4.3-1 kernel: 2.6.25-9.slh.1-sidux-686 this behaviour has been reproduced on many boxes any clues please?
I am seeing this and a work-around is to issue the setxkbmap cmd: setxkbmap de
The same issue maybe: http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5086
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 5086 ***