gnome-settings-daemon crashes immediately upon starting up... but only in KDE

[Kelly Miller]

For some odd reason, gnome-settings-daemon keeps crashing immediately upon 
startup, returning the following error:

The program 'gnome-settings-daemon' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 2669 error_code 8 request_code 20 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
[1226361695,000,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_start_listen/]    The backend does not 
require manual layout management - but it is provided by the application

Apparently, this may be a conflict between evdev and gnome-settings-daemon, 
but I don't notice a problem when I log in to GNOME, only when I try to start 
it via command line in KDE.