I have created a Linux Mint Cinnamon VM that I have tried accessing both with the UnRAID VM level console as well as with TeamViewer (from a Linux Mint Cinnamon laptop) and in both cases my keybinding (Swedish/Swedish) works perfectly witgh ONE VERY ANNOYNING EXCEOṔTION - the tilde "~" key that instead of the expected character seem to be mapped to some "combination key" that when I press another key prints a blank (or non displayable character?).

When I connect with SSH to the VM all characters including tilde work as expected.

I have psecified the keybinding for the console to Swedish and also set Swedish/Swedish as keyboard binding both in the guest OS and in the laptop I use to connect with (that of ocurse handles tilde correctly when used by itself).

Any thoughts on additional things I may need to do in the VM or UnRAID configursation or how to further investigate the problem are very appreciated!

Try setting the VM console keyboard to "No Keymap", it's then controlled by the guest OS:

I tried this and the behavior was really strange - when connecting with the UnRAID built in console all keys including "~" worked but when pressing this key the VM was really laggy responding and after this "~" auto-repeated several times and from this point on the keyboard mapping acted totally wrong - no keys worked as they where expected returning various symbold instead of the expected characters. Do this key have some special function in remote sessions or how can this be?

When I connected with TeamViewer, seeing thew same desktop, the keys worked correctly but of course ~ still did not work as I had not changed anything in this environment. I can switch back and forth between the two and see the same behaviour, i.e. wrong mapping in UnRAID console and mostly working in TeamViewer...

Is something seriously wrong with my VM or wtf is going on here?!?!

Edited July 3, 20251 yr by NAS-newbie
Some typos

Typically, you should always set the VM console keymap to none, the default, and then set the correct layout on the guest OS, and all keys should work, at least for most layouts.