How do I retain keyboard setup for my xrdp session?

Running RDP on my Win10 box against my Raspbian distro on an R4 with xrdp. My keyboard layout was not corresponding to my Norwegian keyboard. I followed the advice in https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/99085/save-setxkbmap-settings to get the keyboard (Norwegian). setxkbmap no in a terminal fixes it. I also followed the advice and added that to ~/profile. Problem is my keyboard layout seems to be reset when the connection is broken (for what ever reason, network glitch, rebooting router after fiddling with some settings etc) or simply being inactive for a while even without the connection being broken. Any takers? Quick question. What's the difference between setxkbmap no and setxkbmap -layout no? Both seems to do the trick but both suffers from the same lack of permanency.