I had this problem a while back. In my case, I had compiled a random git
checkout from awesomewm and that had a bug that was the cause of the
failure. If you're using any beta or development branches of your window
manager, you might want to try stable.
Also, try removing any .xmodmap or other such configurations.
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Adriano Moura
2010/7/17 David C. Rankin
On 07/16/2010 09:52 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
I have a strange problem. ctrl+c is completely broken on my system. It won't cancel Jack Schit. It is the strangest thing I've seen. I apologize if there is some archain Arch notice on this I apologize, I've missed it.
This is easy to test. Just to 'ping anywhere' and then try and kill it with ctrl+c. I have to open another terminal and either 'killall ping' or kill the pid to get the thing to stop. Same thing happens if I mistype a cli and need to cancel the execution (like if I mistype a ' instead of a " and the script continues on a new line)
What's up with this?
OK I've narrowed it down to gnome-terminal. If I use konsole (kde3 or kde4) ctrl+c works just fine.
Can anyone else try in gnome-terminal and see if ctrl+c is broken for you? Just type 'ping whatever' and then try to kill ping with crtl+c. I can't and that's a problem.
I'm using using gnome-terminal 2.30.2-1
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Does Xterm and the VT's works? if so, it must be something with the gnome terminal :)