From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030115 Description of problem: As soon as you enter a Mod key in the keyboard layout switcher's Grab Hotkey, this Mod key will be dead for the rest of the X session, even if you Grab Hotkey again and change it to something else. The key will come back functional in the next X session, even if it's still the layout switcher hot key. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start the keyboard layout switcher applet 2.Choose Preferences, Options and click on Grab hotkey 3.Press say Alt_L-Shift_R 4.Close the applet window 5.Focus on any other application (say gnome-terminal running bash), enter a word and then Alt-backspace 6.Log out, and log back in 7.Verify that Alt is functional again, but it still works as the layout switcher hot key. Actual Results: In 5., Alt-backspace. Depressing Alt actually changes the cursor from a filled black square to a white square with black borders, so it does something, just not what it's meant to. xkbvleds indicate the key is no longer functional as a Mod key. Expected Results: Grab Hotkey shouldn't mess with keys after it's done its thing. Additional info: I'm reusing gnome bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101958 for this.
This is fixed in Severn with all updates.