To emulate X11 grabs, mutter as a Wayland compositor would disable its
own keyboard shortcuts and when the X11 window is an override redirect
window (which never receives focus), it also forces keyboard focus onto
that X11 O-R window so that all keyboard events are routed to the
window, just like an X11 server would.
But that's a bit of a “all-or-nothing” approach which prevents
applications that would legitimately grab the keyboard under X11 (like
virtual machine viewers) to work by default.
Change “xwayland-allow-grabs” to control whether the keyboard focus
should be locked onto override redirect windows in case of an X11 grab.
For stringent needs, careful users can still use the blacklisting
feature (i.e. a list containing “!*”) to prevent grabs from any X11
applications to affect other Wayland native applications.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/597
Change the default key combo to re-enable normal keyboard shortcuts
processing while a shortcut inhibitor is in effect to Super+Escape as
primary system modifier key should be Super.
This should reduce the risk of potential conflict with other shortcuts.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789386
Add a mechanism to MetaWaylandSurface that inhibits compositor's own
shortcuts when the surface has input focus, so that clients can receive
all key events regardless of the compositor own shortcuts.
This will help with implementing "fake" active grabs in Wayland and
XWayland clients.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783342
intltool is unmaintained nowadays while upstream gettext gained
support for formats like GSettings schemas and .desktop files,
and offers a mechanism to teach it about other XML formats not
yet supported out of the box which we can use for the rest.
So there's nothing stopping us, just make the switch ...
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769073
