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After upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04, I have noticed any shortcut involving both Shift and Ctrl does not work if I Shift before Ctrl. In other words, Shift+Ctrl+T does not work but Ctrl+Shift+T works. This is true whether I use Chrome, Firefox, VS code or any other software. Needless to say, this is frustrating and I never experienced such issue before 20.04. Is this intended or have I messed up something?

lightsaber
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  • Do you have multiple keyboard layouts? If so, do you use + to switch between them? – pomsky May 15 '20 at 20:08
  • @pomsky I am afraid, but it did not resolve the issue. If after pressing either of Shift key, I press left Ctrl, shortcut does not work. Nothing happens. – lightsaber May 16 '20 at 12:13
  • What did not resolve the issue? I did not even suggest a solution in the first place! I just asked a couple of questions in my previous comment. – pomsky May 16 '20 at 12:18
  • @pomsky I am sorry for late reply and any confusion I might have caused, but I am still facing the issue I described in the above post. After you suggested to check my keyboard layout, I found out that I had only one layout. I fiddled with settings regardless, restarted Ubuntu and I thought that the issue had vanished, but it was only a misjudgement on my part. That issue is very much still present. If use my left Ctrl key in conjunction with any of the Shift keys, I must press Ctrl before the shift key. – lightsaber May 17 '20 at 14:34
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    This issue is here, I just understood today that the order of key pressing is important, but it's annoying my for about a week, since I installed ubuntu 20. Never happened before in any other OS – Bruno Lamps May 24 '20 at 01:35
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    @BrunoLamps I relieved to know that I am not the only one to face the issue. – lightsaber May 25 '20 at 03:25
  • Looks like an update to Ubuntu has fixed this. – lightsaber May 28 '20 at 04:21
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    Sorry @lightsaber, just updated mine and the problem still exists. But I found a solution in here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1232593/ctrlshift-working-but-not-shiftctrl-in-ubuntu-20-04-lts In my case it was using ctrl to highligh the mouse position. When I shut if off, the problem disappears. Unfortunatelly I need this feature, it wasn't buggy in the past, but it seems like I'll be using ubuntu without it for a while. – Bruno Lamps May 29 '20 at 10:28
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    @BrunoLamps I do not know how the issue got corrected on my system but I also had Locate Pointer enabled. It looks like a bug to me. – lightsaber May 29 '20 at 10:48
  • @BrunoLamps Yes, I had this same problem, and disabling Locate Pointer fixed it. – Eric Hanson Dec 14 '20 at 03:04
  • Does this answer your question? Ctrl+Shift working but not Shift+Ctrl in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS – sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio May 13 '21 at 13:05

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