Debian Buster No keyboard input once config applied

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Running inside virtual box with 3 cores 4GB ram
4.49.0-6-amd64
Debian Buster
AwesomeWM 4.3 / Lua 5.3.3 LGI 0.9.2
Rofi 1.5.1
Compton 0.1~beta2+20150922

I go through the install instructions and after I clone the config and reload I get a white background with the proper theme. I can click on everything but no key presses appear to be registered. I have tried the fork from Chris Titus and in his i get the expected background but still no key presses are being registered.