Annoying Keyboard switch

[Bhasker C V <bhasker@unixindia.com>]

H,

  I have a system where I switch keyboards a lot (from UK to US etc.,)

  I use sid with mate-desktop-environment

 The keyboard preferences allows an applet in system tray to switch between keyboard types.

 When I swtich keyboards, however, I see that the keyboard variant resets back to US even if last keyboard selected was UK and the system was shutdown.

Any tips on how to retain the last keyboard variant ?

Thanks