Shortcut problem with shift-key

[Harald Judt]

Am 19.04.2012 17:43, schrieb Christoph Wickert:
> Am Donnerstag, den 19.04.2012, 17:23 +0200 schrieb Harald Judt:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm not quite sure if this is related to the recent update to pre2, but
>> now I can't use the<Shift>  key in shortcuts anymore.<Super>,
>> <Primary>,... work fine.
>
> This is in fact a change in GTK2, see
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=768704
>
> Kind regards,
> Christüph

Hmm. I've updated GTK2 to 2.24.10 already in February. I'm quite sure 
everything worked fine until some days ago, and I replaced all <Control> 
in shortcuts with <Primary>. No problem there. Also, <Alt>-<Super> works 
correctly, so it's only the shift key which is not recognized anymore. 
Additionally, even a simple <Shift>-<c> does not work anymore, it's 
being transformed into <c> when I try to add a new shortcut.

Thanks for the link to the bug report, but concluding from my 
observations I described above, I don't believe this is the same 
problem. Anyway, libxfce4ui has already changed a lot so the patch might 
not be necessary anymore or would not solve the problem.

At first, I thought it might be related to X, but all other apps work 
correctly (e.g. compiz which offers shortcuts for window management). 
Therefore, I'm pretty sure it has to be a problem with xfce.

To put it in a nutshell: The shift key is not recognized as a modifier 
anymore, only as a single key (aka Shift_L). It could be a problem in 
libxfce4ui, but that needs to be proven.

Harald

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