Just adding a brief comment -- I had this issue occur, and resolved it (apparently, and once-only so far) by using gconf-editor to removing the keyboard mapping of Shift-F19. F19? Sounds like a grep may find a typo? I didn't see F19 mentioned in the comments above yet, so I hope it helps.
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