Detect right and left shift keys pressed together from within Awesome WM - linux

I want to have Awesome WM run a command when both Shift keys (left and right) are pressed together.
I know Linux can differentiate between the two shift keys (e.g., one can tell Gnome to change the keyboard layout when both Shift keys are pressed together).
Is there a way to do this in Awesome?


It is realy very simple, you can set the "Shift" (left shift) as mod key and #62 (right shift) as pressed key. Tested it just now and with me it works.
for instance if I want firefox to spawn I do this:
awful.key({ "Shift" }, "#62", function () awful.util.spawn(browser) end),

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