Issue might be reported before (#6109, #5600, #5636, #5205), but I was pleased to open a new bug since the others are old. The Keyboard Switch Widged does loose it's properties: Every time I logout and relogin "Change Layout option" as well as "Manage Layout" are set back to "-"/"per application". Sometimes even added keyboard layouts are removed (for me de is removed since us is system default). Dont hesitate to contact me for any help I could provide! Regards - Henning
Same here and it's quite annoying to set it up every day :( (Xfce 4.6.2)
Exact same issue here. The xkb plugin consistently forgets the "change layout option" on log out/reboot, and every so often forgets about the Greek layout entirely. I'd also be happy to provide any extra information needed to fix this bug. Xfce 4.8 and xfce-xkb-plugin 0.5.4.1 on Arch linux.
As a workaround try setting the "Use system default" flag in keyboard preferences (not xkb-plugin!) and never open keyboard preferences after doing this. You may have to reconfigure plugin once. It also looks like if you open up keyboard settings after setting "Use system default" option it reports this flag as disabled (this IS a bug). Moreover, if you leave it disabled xkb-plugin breaks again and you have to reapply workaround.
(In reply to comment #3) After some more testing: enabling "Use system default" option erases layout switching and compose key options from xkb-plugin, however if you set them once more they remain untill you disable "Use system default" option. Opening up keyboard preferences does NOT cause disabling of "Use system default" option. So workaround so far: xfce4-keyboard-settings -> Layout -> Set "Use system default" go to xkb-plugin options -> Set desired options Done. Works fine, options stay there after relogin\reboot.
This has occassionally been happening to me over the past months, though I haven't been able to reliably reproduce it. In my case, I have been losing the layout-switch keybinding. xfce 4.8 / debian wheezy (updated from wheezy repo) / xfce4-xkb-plugin 0.5.4.3-1+b1
Should be fixed in git master branch, feel free to reopen if it still happens.