X Keyboard focus mechanism and typical operation of modern toolkits

摘录自XEmbed Protocol Specification

The delivery of keyboard events in X is designed in a way that does not correspond to the typical operation of modern toolkits; instead it seems designed to allow things to allow things to work without either a window manager or a focus handling in the toolkit. Typically, key events are sent to the window which has the X input focus (set with XSetInputFocus()). However, if the mouse pointer is inside that focus window, the event is sent to the subwindow of the focus window that is under the moues pointer. In modern toolkits, the X input focus is typically left on the toplevel window and a separate logical input focus is implemented within the toolkit. The toolkit ignores the window that the key event is actually sent to (which might be a scrollbar or other random widget within the toplevel, depending on where the mouse pointer is), and distributes key events to widget with the logical input focus.