How to use bitbake without X Windows

From Openembedded.org

Q: By default, some bitbake tasks, like devshell and menuconfig, require to run in X Windows, but I have a slow link to the build host. How can I change that requirement?

A: Edit the bitbake config file openembedded/conf/bitbake.conf.

Under the UI/Interaction Configuration section, set:

TERMCMD ?= "${SCREEN_TERMCMD}"   # = screen -D -m -t "$TERMWINDOWTITLE"
TERMCMDRUN ?= "${SCREEN_TERMCMDRUN}"

That will start a screen session to run the task. To attach to the session, open another terminal session and run:

screen -r

Please read the man page of the screen utility to customize TERMCMD for your requirement.