Monitoring keyboard and mouse events

For some unknown reason the key combination ctrl+alt+f1 through f6 are not working, as well as ctrl+alt+backspace.

I'm still working on that but for now I have found some interesting ways to capture keyboard and mouse events:

For keyboard and mouse you can use a small app called xev. After installed just call xev from a terminal, a new blank window will pop up where you can test you mouse and the pressed keys will show up on the terminal.

If you have a touchpad synclient -m 1 can be useful to you.

I'm going to come back here to finish this post as soon as I figure out what's wrong with those key combinations.