Comment 16 for bug 1240198

Same bug here: 14.04 with fresh install. The English layout keeps coming back every two or three sessions, although I erased it from my keyboard's layout list.

I've used the workaround that I found here http://askubuntu.com/questions/378959/keyboard-layout-changes-after-reboot ("brunces" answer at the bottom of the page). That is to add a bash script to the startup applications, that puts the system to the default layout of my chosing. It's not pretty, but it works.