Certain key combinations are not working

Solution 1:

To assess whether the keyboard is failing, you could use any application to monitor key presses. See options here, here, here:

  1. screenkey
  2. sudo evtest
  3. xev

You can perform further evaluations by:

  1. Booting from a Live USB and/or Windows. If the problem stems from your Ubuntu configuration, these should work.
  2. Using another keyboard in your Ubuntu.

All this should suffice to give a clear answer.

Related

  1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTesting/Keycodes
  2. https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man1/showkey.1.html