keyboard layout switcher stopped working

[Markus Hoenicka]

Sergey Manucharian writes:
 >  > As temporary fixing, try to add
 >  > setxkbmap "us,ru,am"
 >  > in ~/.profile and relogin.
 >  > 

Thanks a lot for the pointer. The workaround basically does the trick,
except that I do not use a graphical login, so I had to create and
modify a copy of xinitrc to run setxkbmap as soon as the X server
is up.

regards,
Markus

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