xkb settings messed up, seems to be two keyboards installed



I have two keymaps that I used to switch between with xkb alt_shift_toggle. At
some point it stopped working. xfce xkb applet shows that the keyboard is
switching but it doesn't do anything, sometimes it decides to start switching
between US and en_US instead of IL. setxkbmap does change the keyboard.

I tried fbxkb which gives the error:

xkb group #0 is already defined
kbd group numbering is not continous
run 'xlsatoms | grep pc' to know what hapends

and running that gives:
# xlsatoms | grep pc
173 pc+us
181 pc(pc105)
206 pc+us+il(lyx):2+group(alt_shift_toggle)
208 pc(pc104)
237 pc+us+inet(evdev)+group(alt_shift_toggle)

keyboard setup in xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us,il"
Option "XkbVariant" ",lyx"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
# Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
# Option "XkbOptions" "grp:lwin_toggle"
EndSection

I can't find anything in .xsession-errors or /var/log/Xorg.0.log

any ideas what is going on here?

thanks


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