Switching with the panel applet is the same that with the keyboard, that is to say that at the opening of a new session, clicking the applet has no effects and there is only "France" in the "groupes" submenu. But after opening the keyboard properties and doing a change, and closing the UI, the applet functions well.
Here is the result of gconftool : layouts = [fr,ru phonetic] model = options = [grp grp:alts_toggle] overrideSettings = true And the russian is present. The result of gconftool is the same before or after running the properties applet (the russian is always present is the output). -- gnome-keyboard-properties : need to be reconfigured for each session https://launchpad.net/bugs/84978 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs