http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5623
--- Comment #8 from Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com 2007-11-27 02:14:25 --- (In reply to comment #7)
What if just Wine processes had a consistent view of key state? It seems that would be good enough for the two mentioned applications.
What do you mean by "consistent view of key state"? X server notifies a window when keyboard mapping does change, and Wine updates its state accordingly. X server notifies only those windows which get the focus, i.e. not focused Wine windows have no idea about current X keyboard state.