Hi rado. I don’t know if this will help, but I use setxkbmap too, and I don’t have any problem with it. I don’t know where you put your command. I wrote it in a file named “/home/tc/.X.d/X_kbd”, the contents of which follows:
#!/bin/sh
setxkbmap -layout "fr, fr(bepo), us" -option "grp:sclk_toggle, grp_led:scroll, keypad:oss, kpdl:comma, compose:paus, nbsp:level2, terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
As you see, I don’t use the same options as you do, but I use quite a lot, and they do work. And I checked in Xkb’s file /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst: your option is known to this version of XOrg. So it should work, if you launch setxkbmap from inside “~/.X.d/” in an executable file.
Oh, and I remember something else. I once had this problem where X_kbd was not executed. That was because I made the mistake of writing “exec …something…” in one of the scripts inside “~/.X.d/” that gets executed before X_kbd. I removed the “exec” and all was fine.