I confirm... have just the very same problem.
My solution is to kill the process. It leads to disabling of all appearance settings to defaults.
Then I go System-Preferences-Keybord and this process runs again and all the settings come back to their places. (no restart is needed).
I have 3 layouts: ru, en, ukrainian
ubuntu 10.10 i386
HP probook 4515s
I confirm... have just the very same problem. Preferences- Keybord and this process runs again and all the settings come back to their places. (no restart is needed).
My solution is to kill the process. It leads to disabling of all appearance settings to defaults.
Then I go System-
I have 3 layouts: ru, en, ukrainian
ubuntu 10.10 i386
HP probook 4515s