Keyboard Layout + Screen Sharing

Hello all,
I am using Screen Sharing.app to connect my local MacBook Pro (Lion/15"/Early 2010 with builtin US Keyboard) to a remote MacBook Pro (Lion/13"/2011 with builtin Japanese Keyboard) over iCloud.
When I type the US keyboard of the local MBP, all the Cocoa applications on the remote MBP recognize the typed caracters as US layout. But when I type the US keyboard in X11.app on the remote MBP, X11 regards input characters as Japanese keyboard layout. It is very flustrating for me because I would like to use the US layout when I use X11 software such as emacs.
Does anyone know how I can make the remote X11.app recognize the US keyboard of the local MBP? Any help?
I have been suffering from the same problem with Snow Leopard + MobileMe.

You might want to look at creating an xmodmap file. Some Google searches should help.
My limited use of xmodmap in the past has been to do simple things like change the capslock key to a control key. I have not tried remapping an entire keyboard. But in theory it should be possible, and my might even find an existing file that will provide the entire mapping you desire.
Actually I seem to recall it was possible to use xmodmap to output the map for a keyboard, so if you have a setup where X11 is treating your keyboard as english (like your local system), you mght be able to dump the xmodmap, then transfer that the remote system, and have xmodmap on that system load up the saved map. Just a thought. "Some Assembly Required" :-)

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