I have this behavior when I use x11vnc on my computer.  It somehow changes the keyboard layout.  Usually I switch back to a German layout via
> setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout de -variant nodeadkeys
since switching via the kicker icon does not effect shortcuts in Java applications.  It's strange.

Stefan

On 14.11.2011 23:37, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> Hello. Now that I have solved the "unable to start kdeinit" problem,
> there are good and bad news.
> 
> Good news is that I am editing my videos with kdenlive from the TDE
> environment and that's good.
> 
> Not so good news is that I set up two keyboard layouts: one Swiss
> French (that's what I use), the other US English (for different
> situation where a US Keyboard is usefull. Now, after some time, I
> loose the swiss keyboard - no message, just I suddenly find out I'm
> QWERTY. I can solve this by changing the keyboard from kicker (set US,
> set fr_CH), but the swiss keyboard will disappear later again.
> 
> I first thought I should remove the US keyboard, but that's a bad
> idea, because the swiss keyboard keeps vanishing and I have no more
> applet to click on in kicker...
> 
> Anyone see this behaviour with his keyboard? Could this be a KDE 4 conflict?
> 
> Thierry
> 
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