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I have installed Ubuntu 10.04. It works fine, but when I press Ctrl-C in gnome-terminal I get:

user@desktop:~$ ^C
user@desktop:~$ ^C
user@desktop:~$

In Ubuntu 9.04 (I did have it before) it was so:

user@desktop:~$ 
user@desktop:~$ 
user@desktop:~$

Who knows how can I fix this?

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i expect, best case, this is due to an obscure bash (or possibly gconf) setting; medium case, this is due to some tweak in a terminfo file; worst case, you'll have to patch code and recompile your bash or gnome-terminal packages. – quack quixote May 3 '10 at 16:40
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Give this a try, it will affect other control characters, too:

stty -echoctl
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Dennis, thanks a lot. It works. But when I close gnome-terminal and run it again this parametr is on. How can I save it? – sev May 3 '10 at 18:26
@sev: Add that command to your ~/.bashrc file. – Dennis Williamson May 3 '10 at 19:26
You should make that only run when you're on a terminal, with something like: [ -t 1 ] && stty -echoctl – NVRAM May 4 '10 at 0:16
@NVRAM: I'm curious what the downside is. Besides, normally ~/.bashrc is only loaded for interactive shells. – Dennis Williamson May 4 '10 at 0:31
Hmm, I think you're right. If it's in ~/.bashrc rather than ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile -- it would be good to add that to the answer. While it would probably not kill the job (just print an unneeded error) it's a habit I picked up using Bourne and K-shells -- to avoid interactive commands for when the profile was run by cron or at jobs. – NVRAM May 7 '10 at 15:44
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you can also highlight and use right click on systems you access but don't want to or have time to change settings.

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you just have to hold the shift key down as well. So instead of just CTRL + C, you do SHIFT + CTRL + C

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