While remapping keys I accidentally did something to change the behavior of my alt keys. If I have a window open and I press alt the window is grabbed and stuck to the cursor/arrow keys. This makes my frequent use of alt-tab useless.
The major change I made was with xmodmap, although I don't think this is the cause as they changes are reverted every time I reboot (I added a line to my .bashrc to set my new mappings but this does not take effect until I open a terminal). I also have a backup of my original mapping which I used to reset my changes but that did not fix the issue.
Another change I made in an attempt to persist my xmodmap changes was to add a file in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ as explained here. However, this did not work so I removed the file. I also tried creating a .xinitrc as explained in the top answer on that post but also subsequently deleted that.
None of the above changes explain my problem so I suspect that I deleted or edited something along the way and forgot about it.
Extra Details:
Running xmodmap -pke shows nothing funny for keycode 64 (left alt):
keycode 64 = Alt_L Meta_L Alt_L Meta_L Alt_L Meta_L
The only shortcut mapped to either Alt key is Alt L to Key to show the HUD. Changing this to another key combo (temporarily to alt q) did not fix the issue.
Plugging in an external keyboard verifies that it is not a hardware issue (the behavior is the same with the external keyboard).
What I have tried:
- Resetting my keyboard layout with
setxkbmap -layout us -option - Resetting shortcuts with
gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings
I apologize for my rather vague details; I'd be happy to provide any more detail if needed.
