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How to scroll in the yocto devshell?

How to scroll up/down in the yocto devshell (started with bitbake -c devshell my-recipe)?

Scrolling with the mouse is scrolling through the command history instead of through the terminal. Using shift + page up simply prints ~2 (as in this question). Using reset doesn't fix it.

Solution

  • The yocto devshell uses a tmux environment (as shown by the output of ps -a):

    sh-5.0# ps -a
PID TTY          TIME CMD
 29 pts/0    00:00:00 sudo
 30 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
 60 pts/0    00:00:00 KnottyUI
186 pts/0    00:00:00 tmux: client
189 pts/1    00:00:00 sh
200 pts/1    00:00:00 ps

    You can scroll down using tmux shortcuts (see this question for details), for instance using:

    Ctrl-b then [ then you can use your normal navigation keys to scroll around (eg. Up Arrow or PgDn). Press q to quit scroll mode..