Comment 9 for bug 548631

Same issue here on Xubuntu 10.10. Worse is that I experience this problem irregularly - sometimes the Keyboard Layouts plugin remembers the key combination after reboot and sometimes it does not and I was not able to discover what is this behavior tied to. There are no signs that the plugin crushed anytime and the config file gets modified in the same way as George described plus I also have the same warning entry in the .xsession-errors. I assign the Atl+Shift key combination.

Further on I would recommend to raise the importance of this bug. I am sure that there is a large number of people who use multiple keyboard layouts, especially in countries using alphabets where the letters can contain diacritical marks. I personally must use MS Windows at work and the layout switching is set to Alt+Shift combination by default there so I am used to that and I change the layout very very often (since I'm a web-developer). It is a great inconvenience when I need to set this option in Xubuntu again each time the plugin forgets it and for someone who is thinking about switching to Xubuntu from Windows, this might change his mind.