I am curious if anyone else is using any of these two tilling window managers, and has the same problem - the shift key is not working. Precisely, some key bindings like Mod+Shift+Enter for launching the terminal, or Mod+shift+1 for moving the focused window to another workspace.
Other combinations not related to scrotwm or xmonad like shift+delete works just fine.
I am using siduction amd64 lxde.
Maybe this helps?
$ cat /etc/default/keyboard
# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE
# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.
XKBMODEL="linux"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:lwin,grp:alt_shift_toggle"
BACKSPACE="guess"
What is the Mod-Key?
If it is left win, then compose:lwin is your problem.
In scrotwm and xmonad Mod-Key is alt. (or left alt, I have a keyboard with left alt and alt gr)
I have a similar problem with i3. The mod key is alt and most functions work but not alt-shift-E which normally shuts down i3 (but not X) and takes you back to the logon manager. It may an issue with lightdm although I still have a problem without a dm. This is on the lxde version can someone say what dm is used on the xfce version. I run i3 without problems on most other dm's.
thanks
If I remember correctly in xfce is used gdm3. Don't know if this helps, but I had not the problem in pure debian sid, without any dm (just basic system packages, and x11), so maybe this problem is not necessary related to any dm?