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Why is my keyboard mapping wrong with Xming, Lubuntu in VirtualBox and Putty?

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I am running Lubuntu in a VirtualBox guest on a Windows 7 host. I have started the X server XMing on the host. I use Putty with X-forwarding to ssh into the guest and use it to start lxterminal. This works pretty well except that my Swedish keyboard presses are not coming across correctly. The effe…

Error Output

Setting verbose level to 10
locale is C
Applied rules from xorg:
rules:      xorg
model:      pc105
layout:     se
Trying to build keymap using the f…

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Fix for: Why is my keyboard mapping wrong with Xming, Lubuntu in VirtualBox and Putty?

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There is an option called "Additional parameters for Xming" in configuration of Xming/XLaunch. If you pass something like You will have the same effect as in solution from Peter but without using any other programs. Found solution here: http://my.op…

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