It seems all keyboard events are inhibited when a menu is open, even GNOME's own keyboard shortcuts (try Alt-F1 while a menu's open, or mapping a multimedia key within GNOME Keyboard Shortcuts). I'll investigate further, but this is probably something lineakd cannot change.
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