This issue got *much* worse recently, it now affects keyboard layout
switching as well, so many applications like tuxpaint became completely
unusable.

Example: In Ubuntu 14.04, I run `tuxpaint --fullscreen`. I press Win+Space, the 
Gnome-defined method to switch my keyboard layout from "us,gr" to "gr,us".
unity-settings-daemon cannot read the layout change because tuxpaint has the 
keyboard grab.
(It's the same in other distros too, it's not Ubuntu specific)

So I can't type Greek with the tuxpaint Text tool, making tuxpaint
completely useless in fullscreen mode.

Until some years ago, Gnome allowed XKB to manage the layout switching, which 
worked fine even in fullscreen applications.
It no longer allows it, they try to manage it with gnome-settings-daemon etc.

If there's no intention to fix this in Xorg, please mention it here, so
that we can show that response to Gnome developers and tell them to let
XKB manage the keyboard layouts instead.

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