Super+Up or Down Arrow Key appears to be mis-detected as holding down Super key

Bug #972330 reported by Eric Williams
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Bug Description

## Issue

Pressing and releasing Super+Down Arrow results in the same behavior as if the Super key were pressed and held. I.e., Launcher activates and Keyboard overlay is shown.

## Environment

- 12.04 Precise

- Unity 3D

## Steps to Reproduce

Press left Super and up or down Arrow simultaneously then quickly release.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.8.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-21.34-generic 3.2.13
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Tue Apr 3 11:59:12 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64+mac (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-14 (19 days ago)

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Eric Williams (eric-canonical) wrote :
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 934062, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Or possibly a duplicate of bug 963470.

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