How can I stop the LogCat output from scrolling automatically in Eclipse?

Question

UPDATE: This turned out to be a bug in R14 of the SDK tools. It has been fixed in R15 which was released on Oct/27/2013. Updating to the latest release solves

Answer 1

I stopped having problems disable the option: Automatically enable / disable scroll lock based on the scrollbar position.

Window> Preferences> Android> Logcat> uncheck the option above.

In my case, I'm using Eclipse + Android Developer Tools (Build: v22.6.2-1085508)

I suggest that if I want to use eclipse, download the full package from this link: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

After downloading, download all available updates, less NDK.

Answer 2

That's not what happens to me. If I scroll up it won't scroll down automatically when new lines come to the logcat until I scroll it to the bottom. Maybe it's because of the Eclipse or the Android SDK version. I'm using the latest right now.

Answer 3

You can do adb logcat in a shell, and use your terminal app's scroll buffer and scrolling features to manage the logcat output.