I use ultravnc under Wine to provide remote help desk support to clients. (None of the Mac VNC clients I know of support proxy/repeater environments.)
Well the other day I went to support a user and all I got was gibberish from my keystrokes, after a bit of embarrassing “can you type XXXX and hit enter” type stuff, I disconnected and started trying to figure out if it was me or the end user. After a couple short tests on other remote computers, it became obvious there was something seriously wrong with my keymap. Just the XWindows one too, my keyboard worked fine outside of XWindows.
A couple google queries later and I had the answer.
Short Version
- Close XWindows
- Delete the directory at /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb
Done and done.
Fabrizio says: 
