Answering my own mail after I remembered that xcircuit has a helpful home page:
bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/xcircuit/trouble.html says that
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3.Problem: The main window won't accept keyboard input even though the
buttons and menus all work.
Solution Try version 2.0a8 or later (from 2/25/99).
"
I filed a bug against xcircuit.
> Package: xcircuit
> Version: 2.0a6-3
>
> >From time to time xcircuit does not respond to the kbd.
> To be more specific, it seems to ignore it. It does respond to the mouse,
> though. I believe that this happens if I quit xcircuit and then activate it
> again, as if it remembers that it was running at least once. .xsession-errors
> shows nothing. The only thing that helps is restarting the machine (booting
> it). Restarting xdm does not help.
> 1) Am I the only one who confronted that ?
> 2) What else should I try instead of booting the machine ? Where could I look
> in order to give some meaningful clues to more knowledgeable people ?
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: 2.1
> Kernel Version: Linux rakefet 2.0.36 #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 i586
> unknow
> n
>
> Versions of the packages xcircuit depends on:
> ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries
> ii xlib6g 3.3.2.3a-11 shared libraries required by X clients
> ii xpm4g 3.4j-0.6 X Pixmap libraries (for libc6) - runtime
>
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