gdk_grab_keyboard vs. XGrabKeyboard behavior

["Dinesh Nadarajah" <dxn1972 hotmail com>]

Hi All:

I wrote a simple GNOME program. All it does is that it opens a small window 
and when the window gets exposed the first time, it grabs the keyboard. I 
first used the gdk_grab_keyboard function. And when a key is pressed it 
displays a g_print message saying "key pressed". Both the "exposed" and 
"key_press" events are tied to the main window.

What I found is that when I refocus using my mouse on another application, 
the main application gives up the grab and characters can be typed say into 
gedit or something.

But then again, this does not happen if I convert this into a Gtk 
application instead of a GNOME app. It should not, but it is.

If I replace gdk_grab_keyboard with XGrabkeyboard, then the keyboard grab 
works but nothing is printed on the screen when I press a key.

My understanding was that when I compiled with the GNOME libs. Gtk, GDK , 
Xlib all got included. Should I be inserting the Gtk Libs as well?

Thanks.

-D

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