python tkinter overrideredirect; cannot receive keystrokes (Linux)

Question

I have a python tkinter application which I want to run full screen. When I uncomment overrideredirect, the window manager (Gnome, Linux) will not be able to forward keystro

Answer 1

This works for the use case where you're using overrideredirect to get fullscreen, which is somewhat common:

#self.root.overrideredirect(1)
self.root.attributes('-fullscreen', True)