Comment 141 for bug 1568604

Has someone taken the patch (or rather revert) that was linked in the freedesktop bug entry and tried to apply it to the Ubuntu package? (That appears to be this commit: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=b04767c84deafc44993723add4b1c5163fc11711). I have no experience in how the Ubuntu distribution is run, but is it out of the question to apply this as patch on the Ubuntu side to finally fix this?

I notice that already in my surroundings, several not-so-proficient users are severely affected by this. (One has switched back to a rather old Windows installation because the key combinations of the workaround are apparently too difficult to remember.) So this is keeping me from updating to 16.04.