Wine - keyboard input not working on virtual desktop

[jyaan]

I have had this problem for quite some time as well, and haven't seen any solutions anywhere. Keyboard input works fine without virtual desktop enabled. Once enabled, the title bars do not seem to focus (stays grey, noticed it turned blue when I tried clicking "About WINE", but input is still not working) no matter where I click, and even when there is a text input box with flashing cursor in it.

I am generally able to enter a single character, and then I can't enter anything else. If it is in a game, the single key I entered appears to be held down (maybe a key up event is failing??), so a character would continue moving forward if I pressed the up arrow key. I use dvorak keyboard layout with a simple qwerty usb keyboard (Logitech Classic), and I change to Qwerty layout for certain games with setxkbmap. I have compiz enabled, but disabling it didn't seem to change anything.

Considering that enabling a virtual desktop is one of the ways to make many apps work with WINE, this is a rather large handicap to not be able to use it at all.