Comment 168 for bug 36812

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In , Spitzak-k (spitzak-k) wrote :

As in comment 101, the current behavior of X prevents a lot of interesting usage of shift keys as shortcuts.

A Windows-only compose key program uses the "ctrl" key as the compose key. This is apparently impossible to do in X input methods because you can only bind actions to the press of "ctrl". What is wanted is an action if "ctrl" is pressed and released without hitting any other keys.

I think this can be solved more easily. For any "shift" key, you can bind actions to them, but they are only triggered if you press & release the shift key. All other keys trigger bound actions when they are pressed. The keyboard switching is NOT a special case.