Why does pressing CTRL+C or CTRL+X capitalize the letter instead of exit or their normal EXIT in Raspbian Jessie Lite

Question

I am using the most recent version of Raspbian Jessie.

I'm in the terminal but the CTRL+X to exit a PING command for example doesn't work.

Is it because I changed my locale to en_US.UTF-8? Just a guess.

CTRL + SHIFT + X doesn't work

CTRL + ALT + SHIFT doesn't work either

Answer 1

I've never known ping on GNU/Linux distros to respond to CTRL+X.

Maybe you are thinking of one of the following typical signal generating CTRL inputs:

• CTRL+C = SIGINT (terminates ping and prints final statistics)
• CTRL+Z = SIGSTP (stops the ping and allows it to be resumed)
• CTRL+\ = SIGQUIT (this one makes ping print out the running statistics)

If you really think something is off, you could check out your keyboard configuration. The config is in /etc/default/keyboard.