Ubuntu terminal: How to change ctrl + c (interrupt) to something else?

Question

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with Unity right now. I've changed my copy and paste keys to Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V respectively.

The command I've used is this:

gconftool-2 -t str -s /apps/gnome-terminal/keybindings/copy "<Control>c"

Now I'm looking for a way to change the interrupt / kill process key from Ctrl + C to (for example) Ctrl + I. The problem is that I can't find the appropriate keybinding name for it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Solution

The key combo was changed to Ctrl + Alt + C by default.

Also Alt + F4 is will kill the foreground task (same as clicking the cross).

To change the interrupt key to ctrl + I

stty intr ^i

Just change the "i" to any other letter you want and to see all terminal shortcuts you can run

stty -a

There is a very good answer explaining this here, ignore the title and read the first answer.

Comments

[Bruno Finger]

I'm pretty sure you didn't need to issue that command to do that. I changed my copy and paste keybinds to ctrl+c and ctrl+v by going to Edit > Keyboard shortcuts (or something like this, I'm not on Linux right now). I am also almost sure you can change the keyboard interrupt key there, if you can't, ctrl + alt + C might do a key interrupt now.

[Jonas Sanoj]

@mark kirby That's exactly what I want to do. Sorry if I hadn’t stated that clear enough.

[Mark Kirby]

OK, writing an easy answer now

[Tim]

Why do you need to do that? Personal preference or...?

[Jonas Sanoj]

@Tim it's just a personal preference.

[Mark Kirby]

Updated the answer to reflect your question better

[Rsync]

That is a very helpful answer: would you happen to know how to change the interrupt key combination in termial to ctrl+shift+c? In previous iterations of terminal, changing copy to ctrl+c automatically did this. But now it appears to be ctrl+alt+c.

[Admin]

This is to make you keyboard works like mac. You will map AltGr-c as Ctrl-c like on your mac.