Comment 4 for bug 162585

I use Compiz Fusion since quite some time now. And it is not really surprising, that it behaves the same way. (Compiz was forked into Beryl and later reunited with Compiz as Compiz Fusion.)

I just did a quick test with OpenBox. Normally gtkpinentry steals the keypresses there as well, but somehow I managed to get the input into a gvim window. It seems that gtkpinentry crashed on this, but I'm not sure what really happened.

Well it is gtkpinentry which must request focus in the first place. The window manager should then keep the visual focus ("active window" border) around the window receiving key strokes. On the other hand I personally think that it is a design error to provide programs a way to request this "feature" of catching *all* input independent of focus in the first place.