I can confirm this behaviour. It seems to be at least partly related to bug #58083 - after installing a fixed xserver-xorg-core-package, that is one where XkbGetKeyboard-function is fixed, the problem vanished.
** Changed in: gnome-applets (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- Keyboard Indicator applet does not show correct text after a second login https://launchpad.net/bugs/76011 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs