Please close this bug, my apologies. It has been flagged upstream and the maintainer states that it is a bug in xorg-server:
https://bitbucket.org/portix/dwb/issue/377/cant-write-address-or-other-multikey For reference, it only appears to affect users of the Awesome WM (like me), and one user mentions a workaround of choosing another tab and then coming back. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

