From: Bert Freudenberg <bert at isgnw.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De>
> On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Eric Ulevik wrote:
>
> > From: Raab, Andreas <Andreas.Raab at disney.com>
> > > That's a Windows problem. Windows does not report certain key
combinations
> > > and I'm not sure if that's a hardware problem or a software problem.
It's
> > > just that no events are generated.
> >
> > You can't simultaneously press Alt and Shift. This is a hardware
problem;
> > the keyboard matrix doesn't allow it. You can, however, press Alt and
Ctrl
> > or Shift and Ctrl.
>
> On what hardware? My standard PC keyboard happily reports Alt, Ctrl, and
> Shift in whatever combination (though the Ctrl+Alt combination is mapped
> to MacOption by the Linux VM).

Oops, my mistake. There are some key combinations that don't work because of
hardware, but this isn't one of them. On PCs round here, Alt+Shift is used
by Windows for switching keyboard layouts.

Regards,

Eric Ulevik