Comment # 3 on bug 1125814 from Rodion Iafarov

Ok, so I can easily reproduce it with ice-wm. Gnome handles keyboard layout
differently.
So here are the steps:
1. Install TW with icewm as WM
2. run xterm 
3. Execute following commands:
setxkbmap -layout us,ru
setxkbmap -option 'grp:alt_shift_toggle'
4. One can switch between ru and us with alt-shift
5. Run `setxkbmap -query | grep layout`
6. It returns: "layout: us,ru"
7. Run `xdg-su -c 'yast2 keyboard'`
8. Click cancel in opened dialogue
9. Run `setxkbmap -query | grep layout`
10. It returns: "layout: us"

I hope this helps. Let me know if you are still not able to reproduce the
issue. And thanks for the prompt reply, I appreciate this style of work ;)