I played around a little and it seems like you're completely right: In general single-key shortcuts do work. Like for example the F-keys. So it really comes down to those two keys that some component of the desktop environment refuses to process. Keycodes are 161 and 162.
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I played around a little and it seems like you're completely right: In general single-key shortcuts do work. Like for example the F-keys. So it really comes down to those two keys that some component of the desktop environment refuses to process. Keycodes are 161 and 162.