diff --git a/wl.c b/wl.c
index 569c8da..2107be7 100644
--- a/wl.c
+++ b/wl.c
@@ -343,11 +343,12 @@ releasegrab(void)
 }
 
 /*
- * The context is going: give the client its keys back and the pending
- * text, as a lost focus does everywhere else.  A client that only
- * disabled its text input still holds the focus and takes the commit;
- * when the focus itself moved, the compositor sent the text input its
- * leave first and drops the commit whatever serial it carries.
+ * The context is going: give the client its keys back.  The pending text
+ * goes nowhere either way -- the compositor drops a commit once the text
+ * input has its leave, and a client that disabled its own text input has
+ * stopped listening, so it throws a relayed commit away.  XIM and IBus
+ * hand the text back here because their focus-out is a round trip the
+ * client still waits on; a deactivate is not.
  */
 static void
 leave(void)
@@ -357,7 +358,6 @@ leave(void)
 	releasekeys();
 	if(engaged){
 		sendrequest(Keyrelease, 0, 0, &res);
-		answer(&res, "");
 		engaged = 0;
 		takedraw();
 	}