On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 08:52:05 +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > 17.12.2015 05:52, John Murphy пишет: > > Hello and thanks for Grub. I use it daily. > > > > You need to boot so often? :)
Twice today already! :) > > > I've seen questions regarding mouse support, but the answers imply that an > > on-screen pointer is requested. I would find it very useful to be able to > > use the mouse scroll wheel (which is just two switch clicks if I understand > > correctly) to move up and down between entries, and one click on the left > > mouse button to emulate pressing Enter. > > > > All that would seem necessary is for wheel up-button to do up arrow, wheel > > down-button - down arrow and left-button - Enter. > > > > GRUB mostly relies on firmware support. At least for EFI there is no > notion of "wheel", only mouse move events. I do not know if mouse can be > accessed via BIOS at all. I'm able to scroll through entries on pages in my BIOS using the wheel (Asus Maximus VII Formula). Not sure if that means anything. > > For tablet type devices using volume up/down and tap may work for menu > selection, assuming that modern devices are EFI based. > > > I have my own reasons for wanting the feature, but, while searching for > > information, I saw that some users are finding their USB keyboard isn't > > supported and they may have found simple mouse button and wheel support > > useful. > > > > It could also help those who usually use on-screen keyboards like the > > quite excellent OnBoard. > > > > Someone who has hardware and can actually test it needs to send patches. Happy to test on mine, but I'd need a few pointers on how to apply a patch. (I've tested kernel patches for a developer, which were committed.) -- I've joined the list, so no need to CC, thanks. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
