Yosemite changes my keyboard layout without reason (randomly)

Hi folks. I have a macbook pro with retina display (Late-2013) and spanish keyboard. As a matter of fact I have a Spanish-ISO keyboard layout selected by default.
The problem is that I've recently noticed that Yosemite changes my keyboard layout to United States. When I go to input devices (in preferences) I find that a US keyboard has been added! Now I have Spanish-ISO and US as input device, but the US one is being used. So I remove the US keyboard, leaving just the Spanish one, and everything seems to work correctly again.
The problem is that this event repeats randomly! I notice that this is happening when I need to login my session. But not everytime!
I don't know what could be the problem!
Any idea?

Another way.
Thinking that LXDE is using Openbox.
You can use ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml
http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Bindings#Key_bindings
example: using the Windows key
<keybind key="W-u">
<action name="Execute">
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<keybind key="W-b">
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