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I'm running a Linux VM on windows with Hyper-V and connect via a remote desktop session. It often happens that the Alt-key appears to remain pressed after I use a keyboard shortcut involving both, Alt and Shift. If I press Alt again, everything works fine but it is pretty annoying because various keyboard shortcuts are triggered when I continue typing without pressing Alt again after the initial shortcut that causes the problem.

The problem is not related to a specific application but is reproducible in different apps.

I'm using the xfce desktop and xrdp.

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    I know this is an old question, but did you ever solve it? I'm running into the same exact thing myself: whenever I press Alt+Shift, the Alt key gets stuck "on", so that all keypresses are effectively Alt+{whatever}, until I hit Alt again. (For reference, I'm using centos 7, Gnome Shell, tigervnc-server, xrdp, and Remote Desktop Connection on Windows 7.)
    – Ken Bellows
    Jul 25, 2018 at 14:51
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    @KenBellows no, at least I don't remember. Fortunately, I don't have to work on a windows machine anymore ;-)
    – lex82
    Jul 25, 2018 at 15:08
  • I have the same problem using windows -> windows remote desktop
    – Erik Thysell
    Jan 27, 2021 at 8:03
  • Probably not your issue, but there is a bug in xrdp which causes this Redhat 7 - bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1415069
    – Adam
    Feb 17, 2022 at 7:10

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It is possible that you have sticky keys on. Pressing shift 5 times turns it on. Uncheck the setting on this pageenter image description here.

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    Unfortunately this is not the problem. It's turned off as in your screenshot.
    – lex82
    Nov 19, 2015 at 10:36
  • @lex82, it may not be your problem, but in my screenshot it is on. "Turn on Sticky Keys when Shift is pressed five times" is actually ticked.
    – Rohit Gupta
    Nov 19, 2015 at 10:38
  • I thought the first checkbox would override it because of the indentation but I had also tried deactivating all of the boxes.
    – lex82
    Nov 19, 2015 at 11:20
  • No, try it. Press shift 5 times.
    – Rohit Gupta
    Nov 19, 2015 at 23:02
  • Ok, you are right. However, unfortunately it does not solve the problem.
    – lex82
    Nov 20, 2015 at 5:56

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