Shortcut problem with shift-key

[Vladimir Kravets]

Hi Harald,

Are you using Shift as keyboard layout switcher key?

If yes there is old defect for that on Xorg. In this case you need to patch
the Xorg. I'm already did this and patch works perfectly.

Thanks,
Vladimir

2012/4/20 Harald Judt <h.judt at gmx.at>

> 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<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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