Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 219355
Shift with alt doesn't work correctly
Last modified: 2018-04-11 12:06:50 EDT
Description of problem: If you hold down either shift key, then hold down left alt the alt doesn't happen. If you use the Right alt key it works. This happens in both xemacs, and gnome-keybinding-properties. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): % rpm -qf /usr/bin/Xorg ~/movies/x xorg-x11-server-Xorg(0:1.1.1-47.1.fc6).i386 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run gnome-keybinding-properties 2. Choose a shortcut to test. 3. Hold down shift. 4. Hold down Left alt. 5. Press 4 (observe it says <Shift>4 6. Release all keys 7. Choose a shortcut to test. 8. Hold down Left alt. 9. Hold down shift. 10. Press 4 (observe is says <Alt><Shift>dollar Additional info: Note that in gnome-keybinding-properties using the Right alt key gives you <Shift>Meta_R (shift key first) or <Alt_R> (no shift key). So it's not possible to use the right alt key to set the preference, but using it post setting invokes the shortcut. I've put the priority higher for this, as it didn't do it in fc5 and it will probably be percieved as "keyboard just acts weird".
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could please also add to your comment output of the command setxkbmap -print in the moment the keyboard doesn't work as you would like? We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 144288 [details] My xorg config. file Note that I've seen this on multiple machines, both this one (updated from FC5) and another with FC6 installed from scratch. % setxkbmap -print xkb_keymap { xkb_keycodes { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" }; xkb_types { include "complete" }; xkb_compat { include "complete" }; xkb_symbols { include "pc(pc105)+us" }; xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" };
Fedora Core 6 is no longer supported, could you please reproduce this with the updated version of the currently supported distribution (Fedora 7, 8, or Rawhide)? If this issue turns out to still be reproducible, please let us know in this bug report. If after a month's time we have not heard back from you, we will have to close this bug as CANTFIX. Setting status to NEEDINFO, and awaiting information from the reporter. [This is mass-filed message to all open Fedora Core 6 bugs related to Xorg or Gecko. If you see any other reason, why this bug shouldn't be closed, please, comment on it here.]
Just re-tested on Fedora 8 and it works for me now.