Yes I have Override Keybindings set...
I just stumbled on a solution though...
when I had used just ps to see the processes before (from another xterm), I could kill the bash shell (but that killed geany too since I was running it from that shell), but I just learned about pstree which showed me there is another bash shell running under geany and that I can kill independently of the first one so geany stays there!  

Thanks for all your suggestions;  case closed!

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr@gmail.com> wrote:
On 15 January 2017 at 01:41, David Topham <dtopham@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just joined this list and have been a happy user of geany on Debian for a
> year. Great editor with helpful plugins! One feature I use all the time is
> the terminal. I noticed that if the terminal gets hung, then I can't kill it
> without closing geany. i.e. ctrl-c does not interrupt the program that I ran
> which is hung. If I go to another xterm outside of geany I can kill the
> runaway process, but that kills geany too! Is there a way to interrupt
> (break) the terminal and still keep geany open?


Have you got Menu->Edit->Preferences->Terminal->Override Geany Keybindings set?


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