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I'm not sure when it happened, but some time in the past (a year or so) I've lost the ability (or I've just forgotten how) to use my Hungarian keyboard layout while logging in to the Ubuntu Jaunty based FreeNX server at work from my home workstation that runs a Mac OS X Leopard with NX Client 3.3.0-6. Actually this was not much of a problem, because I mostly leave my work in the office and a lot of tools/services are available to coworkers even without logging in to the FreeNX server. A few minutes ago I accidentally stumbled on a two year old blog post that suggested to start X11 before the NX Client and things are supposed to work. Actually it's even more simple than that. To use a specific layout in your NX session, you've to switch to the given layout on your Mac before you start the NX Client. The blog post I referred to said that you've to start X11 before the NX Client. For me this seems not to be a requirement. The Gnome keyboard layout indicator applet in my NX session still says that it's using the USA layout, however pressing the keys reveals that it's using the Hungarian layout. The only problem is that once you're logged in, you cannot switch layouts. Even if you change layout on the Mac, the NX session keeps the one that you were using at the time of the login. So remember: the X11 application (in this case the NX Client) uses the layout that was set at the moment X11 started.