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Console Shell Keybindings

The console shell is primarily driven by the actions menu but each of the activities which may be selected from there also has its own keybinding.

The console shell is wrapped with a copy of GNU screen, so any of the keybindings you’ve learnt for that will work – with the difference that we’ve changed the default escape key from Ctrl-a to Ctrl-p

Available Keybindings

Availability Shortcut Action
dh & vm Ctrl+p [ Scrollback Mode
dh & vm Ctrl+p F Fullscreen
dh & vm Ctrl+p f Cancel fullscreen
dh & vm Ctrl+p h Help
dh & vm Ctrl+p Ctrl+o Actions Menu
dh & vm Ctrl+p r Reboot
dh & vm Ctrl+p x Exit
dh & vm Ctrl+p w Watchdog Rules
vm Ctrl+p k Change Your Kernel
vm Ctrl+p C Change Your Password

Scrollback Mode

The scrollback mode is very useful if you’re wanting to see what has been displayed on your console – perhaps to look for a kernel panic log or similar.

Once you’re in scrollback mode you’ll find that the normal keys do not work. Instead you should use the arrow keys to scroll up and down.

To leave scrollback mode press “return” twice, or press escape.

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