I also experience this issue after a clean 14.04 installation. Layout keeps switching all the time. It's incredibly annoying and infuriating.
My preferred keyboard layout is "US International with dead keys" (or something like that, my environment is currently set to Spanish). I need this keyboard layout for many reasons, the first and most obvious being that my laptop came with a English layout keyboard, not Spanish. Second is that I often need to type áéíóúñõãũ etcetera. Third, I don't want to switch layouts all the time, so "US International with dead keys" is a perfect fit for me. The problem is that I find myself frequently (read: many times a day) messing around with keyboard layout settings because the system keeps forgetting and instead changes to plain English layout and for some very stupid reason, disabling num lock. Also, when this obnoxious unsolicited gratuitous layout switch happens, I no longer can type some characters (quotation marks ("), apostrophes ('), accents ('`)) in applications written in Java/Swing. I can say for sure, but I think one of the things that triggers the switching is suspend/resume cycles. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1247668 Title: NumLock turned off on layout switch Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Extracting from bug 1218322, confirmed there by multiple users: When switching the keyboard layout using a shortcut (such as Alt+Shift), NumLock functionality is (mostly) turned off. More precisely: it goes into an inconsistent state where pressing numpad 5 inserts the digit 5, but the other numpad keys move the cursor. Pressing the NumLock key turns it off completely (pressing numpad 5 no longer does anything), and pressing once again turns it on. This means that if someone prefers to have the NumLock functionality switched on all the time, they have to press the NumLock key twice after each layout change. I find this a huge usability problem. (I don't have a LED, so I cannot tell how that one is lit.) The bug is not present when changing the layout via the indicator applet. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.8.5-0ubuntu11.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Nov 3 21:54:37 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-30 (522 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-12 (21 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1247668/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp