Comment 17 for bug 1072120

Hi Ryan,

thanks for your hints. It helped me to find a workaround, without using ~/.Xmodmap. And now I'm able to switch the keyboard layouts using "gnome-control-center region layouts", too, withour "loosing" the € or $ key of the acer laptop again.

I found these links very helpful. Perhaps they can be helpful for others who are using the approach you suggested:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Howto%3A%20Custom%20keyboard%20layout%20definitions
http://www.charvolant.org/~doug/xkb/html/node5.html

cheers Dirk