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  • This shouldn't happen. Does this happen in every application or only in IntelliJ? Open a terminal, run the command xev, focus the xev window (but avoid moving the mouse cursor over it because that would produce a lot of output that we don't care about), press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+A, then go back to the terminal and press Ctrl+C. Copy-paste the output from xev starting with the FocusIn event (we don't need the startup stuff before that) into your question. Commented Sep 16, 2020 at 19:33
  • Added it. I checked in other apps and I noticed that when I try to assign a shortcut to Alt+Shift in Window Manager it changes to "Next Group" instead of "Alt+Shift". Similar with more keys but it depends on the order of pressing e.g. Ctrl+Shift+Alt (in that order) becomes Shift+Ctrl+Next Group and Alt+Shift+Ctrl becomes Alt+Control L. Commented Sep 16, 2020 at 19:50
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    Ok, your keyboard layout is set up in a way that (left) Alt becomes ISO_Next_Group when Shift is pressed. I don't know what settings would result in that, but it's probably visible in the keyboard configuration interface (I guess it's an XKB option). Commented Sep 16, 2020 at 20:13
  • Thank you, that was it. I've answered with my solution. Not perfect, but works for me. Commented Sep 16, 2020 at 20:21