To clarify and in case it isn't obvious from the original report, the gdm login screen works fine - it's only after login that the keyboard map gets weird.
I'm using xvnc4viewer: if I use tightvncviewer or realvncviewer then the vnc viewer never receives the input focus, perhaps again because I'm using the evdev keyboard driver (keystrokes are echoed to an unrelated terminal window, which probably received the focus when the VNC viewer's password dialog closed). John. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The greatest problem in communication is Network Administrator | the illusion that it has been accomplished +61 4 0739 1169 | - George Bernard Shaw: The Sanity of Art -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]