On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 07:54:39PM +0000, Richmond wrote: > > 3. Type Ctrl-C (one or several times) in the terminal. > > But nothing happens. > You could try pressing ctrl-z at this point to send the application into > background.
It doesn't work, presumably for the same reason that Ctrl-C doesn't work. The xterm's pty's input buffer is full, and it simply ignores all keyboard input from that point forward. (Are people not actually *testing* these things before proposing them?)