I found that I cannot ctrl+c in xterm , and I cannot close xterm using awesome's shortkey binding.After googled a lot I found downgrade libev fixes this problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge =dev-libs/libev-3.80 and awesome(currently I'm running awesome 3.3.1) 2.run xterm and try to close it using mod+shift+c, or ctrl+c in xterm Since I encountered a problem emerging >=x11-wm/awesome-3.3.1, I can only test this problem with my current awesome. A related post on archlinux's forum: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=607813
awesome-3.3.3 in cvs. its fixed the issue by upstream.