Comment 237 for bug 1245473
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(In reply to Nikolay from comment #155)
> There is now once more spike of activity here - probably because Ubuntu
> 17.04 was released recently which dropped this patch because it was not
> compatible with newer xorg. kyak has provided an updated patch, but it would
> take a lot of time for distributions to pick it up and then circle would
> repeat with next xorg version.
On Ubuntu 16.04.03 LTS I just went from using Unity to Gnome. With some back and forth with lightdm vs. gdm and the screen lock issues I got things working more or less until I stumbled over what probably are the ripples of this old bug (and I couldn't agree more with Nikolay and his comment).
I had two keyboard layouts running with Unity, and as everybody seems to have, I used Alt-Shift to switch layouts, just like on my Windows laptop. And like almost everyone else, I of course have Alt-Shift-Tab set for cycling backwards through windows (after jumping through all sorts of hoops to tell the window manager not to group windows of the same app...).
I reported my issue at https:/
I haven't taken the time to understand all the details, so I apologize for the outside perspective. Yet, I am of the opinion that it should be possible to define shortcuts such that they trigger their event only upon release, not upon press, because as noted by everyone else here it makes it impossible to define "release" shortcuts that are "prefixes" of other shortcuts, and this is a severe limitation that becomes highly practically relevant for the usual keyboard layout switching shortcut that just so happens to be a prefix of the usual window backwards switching shortcut.
There have been much worse backward incompatibilities in Linux. And while I hate seeing things break by such changes, here my very personal view is that should this really present a problem that cannot be solved in a backward-compatible way (e.g., by letting users distinguish between "release" and "press" shortcut definitions) then so be it. What is this compared to deprecating X11, then xorg and at some point also Wayland...?