[Bug 1302770] Re: keymap unstable

[marmuta]

You could probably set it in xorg.conf.d, but I wish there was a better
solution. This problem keeps coming up, infrequently, but persistently
over the years.

OK, let's see. The indicator in unity panel writes to gsettings.
gsettings monitor org.gnome.desktop.input-sources current 

Unity-settings-daemon listens for this key's changes and in response sets the root window property _XKB_RULES_NAMES. As I understand it, that's basically what setxkbmap does too.
xprop -root | grep XKB

However, unity-settings-daemon seems to always add the us layout as a second group, something "setxkbmap it,us" would do.
setxkbmap -query | grep layout
layout:     it,us

I don't know why that happens. There's probably a good reason for it,
but I could imagine this is what exposes you to the old bug #837456.

** Also affects: unity-settings-daemon
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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