OS: Linux

After logging out of Vendetta, and quitting, the Xterm that I used to launch the game no longer allows any sort of input from the keyboard.

Try typing C-q in the xterm window. Does that help any?
-:sigma.SB

When you say C-q, by that, do you mean CTRL+Q ? I did this and it did not fix the problem.

> When you say C-q, by that, do you mean CTRL+Q ?
Yeah, but that was just a sanity check.
Was this an xterm which started Vendetta directly? (i.e. "xterm -e ~/bin/vendetta") or one which was running a shell through which you started Vendetta? If it's a shell xterm, your shell might be execing VO.
-:sigma.SB

It's a shell xterm.

[frozen@frozen ~]$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.00.0(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
[frozen@frozen ~]$

Basically I open an xterm window, type vendetta, and proceed to play the game. Afterwards, the window refuses to receive input from the keyboard.

hmm, what WM are you using? Could be a simple focus issue here.

aterm/bash and aterm/zsh doesn't exhibit those issues for me, under Xorg/Openbox.

Neither do my xterms, under Xorg/Metacity.

Do you play in fullscreen or window mode?

Xorg / Xfce 4.2

I am playing full screen.

I had this problem with a debian sid, was a few months ago, so it was still using XFree86, never posted it as a bug, as I have used the same routeen to start most my games, and noticed this issue with other games, but only on the debian box. I use no wm's while playing games, just use xinit to start X and an xterm, after exit, i have to kill X. (in the end i just cut out the middle man and setup xinit sripts for most my games, and i rarely use the debian box...)