Comment 75 for bug 1245473

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In , Shift-cmpd2 (shift-cmpd2) wrote :

I used to use Ctrl-Shift combination to switch keyboard layouts (ru <--> us)
but in this case i cant use any of the Ctrl-Shift-* hotkeys in any software i try.

I noticed, that the keyboard layout becomes swithced as soon an both keys are DOWN --
pressing any other key is not treated as Ctrl-Shift-<key> combination.

For example -- in Windows i also use Ctrl-Shift to switch layouts, but there, the layout
becomes switched only when both SHIFT and CTRL keys are UP, and no other key was
pressed while they were down -- in that case the hole combination is treates as
Ctrl-Shift-<key> combination, and the layout is not changed.

see also: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59303

I use the following lines in XF86Config:

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver "Keyboard"
  Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
  Option "Protocol" "Standard"
  Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru"
  Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
  Option "XkbOptions" "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle"
  Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
  Option "XkbVariant" ",winkeys"
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