Windows 10 Bash (Ubuntu) - How to scroll up?

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kebab-case picture kebab-case · Jan 21, 2017 · Viewed 34.7k times · Source

I have bash installed on my W10 laptop, but one thing that is very frustrating is I can not scroll up.

Does anyone know of a way to enable scrolling with the mouse wheel? I could not find anything after many google searches.

Context: If I compile some C++ files and get a lot of errors, I can not scroll up to see all those errors.

Answer

shilovk picture shilovk · Feb 2, 2017

You must set Properties → Layout → Screen Buffer Size → Height to the number of lines you want.

The default was 50 lines. I set it to 1000 and that's enough for me.

Properties menu

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