The vanishing keyboard

Hello. Now that I have solved the "unable to start kdeinit" problem, there are good and bad news. Good news is that I am editing my videos with kdenlive from the TDE environment and that's good. Not so good news is that I set up two keyboard layouts: one Swiss French (that's what I use), the other US English (for different situation where a US Keyboard is usefull. Now, after some time, I loose the swiss keyboard - no message, just I suddenly find out I'm QWERTY. I can solve this by changing the keyboard from kicker (set US, set fr_CH), but the swiss keyboard will disappear later again. I first thought I should remove the US keyboard, but that's a bad idea, because the swiss keyboard keeps vanishing and I have no more applet to click on in kicker... Anyone see this behaviour with his keyboard? Could this be a KDE 4 conflict? Thierry