Suddenly my keyboard layout reverts to US?

A while back I set my keyboard layout to UK by creating /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf with the following contents:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Keyboard Defaults"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
This has worked fine for a long time, but suddenly it has stopped working for no apparent reason.

ximun wrote:Does the gb layout work if you set it manually with setxkbmap?
shaurz wrote:Yes, setxkbmap gb works.
how about adding setxkbmap gb to your .xinitrc ?
Dirty hack? yeah, I know
Say, if you change the "gb" to another thing, like "es" or "fr" on your conf file, does that work? Im wondering if is a problem that affects only gb, or it affects other layouts too

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