This is really only a workaround to unbreak things on startup. We need more
time to investigate what the real fix is, and we don't have enough time for
openSUSE 11.0.

Index: gnome-settings-daemon-2.22.1/plugins/keyboard/gsd-keyboard-manager.c
===================================================================
--- gnome-settings-daemon-2.22.1.orig/plugins/keyboard/gsd-keyboard-manager.c
+++ gnome-settings-daemon-2.22.1/plugins/keyboard/gsd-keyboard-manager.c
@@ -410,6 +410,7 @@ gsd_keyboard_manager_start (GsdKeyboardM
                             GError            **error)
 {
         GConfClient *client;
+	char *program;
 
         gnome_settings_profile_start (NULL);
 
@@ -430,6 +431,12 @@ gsd_keyboard_manager_start (GsdKeyboardM
         apply_settings (client, 0, NULL, manager);
         g_object_unref (client);
 
+	program = g_find_program_in_path ("setxkbmap");
+	if (program != NULL) {
+		g_spawn_command_line_async (program, NULL);
+		g_free (program);
+	}
+
         gnome_settings_profile_end (NULL);
 
         return TRUE;