I just updated to 10.04 and all the sudden my shift key would no longer work. I fixed it and am sharing what I found here, but background of how I run my system first. I am running Xubuntu via VMWare-Server and I connect to it via X11VNC. After some research I came to find that it was an issue with X11VNC, if I used regular VNCServer it worked fine. So that gave me something to google, and sure enough it is a known issue. But there was a workaround:
http://www.bramschoenmakers.nl/en/node/714
To sum it up, when you run x11vnc just pass the -xkb flag. Simple command ie.
And that fixed my issue till they fixe x11vnc. Just wanted to share for anyone that runs into the issue.Code:x11vnc -display :0 -xkb
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