Can't switch keyboard layouts in IceWM / openSUSE 11.3

[Дмитрий Г. <gd...@tu...>]

Hi!

I have updated openSUSE from 11.1 to 11.3 and faced a problem that did
not emerge before: I can’t switch my keyboard layouts anymore in
IceWM(Gnome). Switching became disabled also in KDE and Gnome, but
there I managed to make the necessary setting through the respective
setup utilities.

I tried to find an answer in Google, but all I get are recommendation
to define switching in xorg.conf. However, I have it there such as:

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "kbd"
  Identifier   "Keyboard[0]"
  Option       "Protocol" "Standard"
  Option       "XkbLayout" "us,ru,by,epo"
  Option       "XkbModel" "microsoftmult"
  Option       "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,lv3:win_switch"
  Option       "XkbRules" "xfree86"
  Option       "XkbVariant" "alt-intl,winkeys,winkeys,"
EndSection

(the keyboard is Microsoft Natural Multimedia 1.0A)

but the above settings seem to have no effect.

kkbswitch (recommended in some forums) doesn’t help either, after
start-up it shows only the US layout available, although it works fine
in KDE and Gnome showing all four layouts.

Could anyone point to some good how-to or give some advice?

Best regards,

Dmitri Gabinski