Alt-Shift for language blocks Alt-Shift-Tab for backwards cycling through windows

[sakishrist]

Hello all,

I've set my language switching shortcut to be the familiar for me alt-shift. Since I did that though, I cannot use, or even set, the alt-shift-tab for backward cycling of the windows.

I remember having this working before on Mint 18, where Cinnamon(?) waited to see if I'll press any other keys and only completed the shortcut on the KeyUp event.

Is there anything I can do to go back to that behavior again?

Thanks in advance!

Sakis

[alex_mint]

Hello there!
I've made this account just to reply to You (and to everyone else with this issue).
This GitHub issue contains a comment on how to fix this Alt+Shift+Tab problem.
Here is the contents of the linked issue-comment:
User "eladhen" said:

The patch for this bug exists and can be found here: ppa:nrbrtx/xorg-hotkeys
The bug report on Xorg is here: https://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865

And then user "alexvechirko" replied to that with:

If someone like me doesn't know how to install the patch, here is the instruction:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nrbrtx/xorg-hotkeys
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
*for me it works, but if someone can prove or add something - welcome =)

So, just run these three commands and restart your computer.
I hope this will help someone!