IntelliJ no longer reacts to CTRL-C to interrupt terminal processes

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For the last 2 month or so IntelliJ (Ultimate) no longer responds to CTRL-C interrupts. I use powershell as integrated terminal (tried all other available terminals as well), and no luck.

If I use powershell separately (so not the integrated terminal) it works just fine...

My current workaround is closing the terminal tab and run the command again.

These are my terminal settings:

Anyone has any clue?

Could you please share idea.log ("Help | Show Log in...") after restarting IDE and reproducing the issue? — y.bedrov
– y.bedrov, Commented Feb 9, 2022 at 16:06
@y.bedrov while preparing for this I tried it again, and still failed. But because I wanted to give a minimal log, I exited intellij and renamed the current log file to get a fresh one on start up. And somehow now it works again.... if you put this in an answer I am more then willing to accept it as solution! — Sonaryr
– Sonaryr, Commented Feb 10, 2022 at 7:07
Thanks! But it doesn't look like good solution :) Let's leave it as a comment. — y.bedrov
– y.bedrov, Commented Feb 10, 2022 at 19:26
Sorry to resurrect this 3 years later. But I'm encountering the same issue. I'm using the terminal built-in to Rider, and it used to work. But for some reason Ctrl-C no longer terminates the process/script it's running. I have to close the tab and reopen it (in my case I also am auto-running docker contains so have to close those as well which is frustrating) — NeoKuro
– NeoKuro, Commented Nov 18 at 0:53

gdoura mohamed · Accepted Answer · 2025-11-20 10:25:03Z

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I ran into the same problem a few weeks ago, and it turned out IntelliJ was swallowing CTRL-C.
Disabling Override IDE shortcuts in: Settings > Tools > Terminal immediately fixed it!
After unchecking that, PowerShell started receiving interrupts normally again.

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