XFCE keyboard and windowing functionality loss

[Max Pyziur]

Greetings,

Today, suddenly certain keyboard and windowing functionality stopped.

No longer can I cycle through windows on a desktop by using Alt-Tab. Also, 
the windowing capabilities - maximize/minimize a window disappeared. There 
are a few other similar abnormalities.

I thought that this may have been due to some sort of a software update; 
but I haven't done any in the last few days.

I know that there is an oddity/bug  in XFCE that the keyboard stops 
functioning if you hold down one of the shift keys for too long.

But this seems to be something very differt.

If anyone has experienced this problem and resolved it, please share your 
solution.

Otherwise, it's into the Gnome 3 world.

Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com