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Still being stored as <Primary> in my Ubuntu/xfce4 14.04 system.
Seriously, what motivated some software engineer to rename <ctrl> as <Primary>? What problem did this solve that couldn't be solved some other way?
This is what should be done now: Track down all software that writes "<Primary>" to any config file and change it to write <ctrl> (or <ctrl_L> or <ctrl_R> if you need). Also make sure that all the software understands <Primary> and converts it to <ctrl> when it reads a config file.
Nonsense like this is why Linux is having so much trouble being adopted for the general desktop. Every single damn release breaks things. I can't stand upgrading because I know I need to fix fifty things when I do.