Windows – Alt + key not working

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Since yesterday, my keyboard has been working differently. Here a few problems:

The windows key + another key shortcuts works, but the desktop always switches to the start screen.
Alt + key shortcus works adding ctrl (ctrl+alt+q=> "@", instead of only alt + q). Although, the alt + tab shortcut navigation is working

I tried to change the keyboard and check if it was a RPD issue, nothing worked. What can I do?

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I solved it by changing the keyboard layout through "windows key"+"Space".

Switching the layout by means of Alt + Shift did not help before. A reboot also fixes it.

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This is an Xorg bug and as I understand it manifests itself by Xorg giving preference to shorter shortcuts before more complex ones that include the same keys as a subset.

There is a patch in the Freedesktop bugzilla ticket and you can install it using the commands below (documented already in this Cinnamon issue on Github):

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