twkj says to do this - plan9port - [fork] Plan 9 from user space
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   DIR commit 678359a95a034148c0c0ad268a3f00ba49569552
   DIR parent 26af0278ae93c2ea4cb6b46ae7c49f6eb5ec826c
  HTML Author: rsc <devnull@localhost>
       Date:   Wed,  9 Jun 2004 14:29:08 +0000
       
       wkj says to do this
       
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         M src/cmd/rio/main.c                  |       1 +
       
       1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 0 deletions(-)
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   DIR diff --git a/src/cmd/rio/main.c b/src/cmd/rio/main.c
       t@@ -416,6 +416,7 @@ sendcmessage(Window w, Atom a, long x, int isroot)
                        mask = SubstructureRedirectMask;                /* magic! */
                else
                        mask = ExposureMask;        /* not really correct but so be it */
       +        mask |= KeyPressMask;        /* seems to be necessary */
                status = XSendEvent(dpy, w, False, mask, &ev);
                if (status == 0)
                        fprintf(stderr, "rio: sendcmessage failed\n");