From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1a9RU6-0003Zm-5u for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 00:52:14 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33089) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9RU3-0003ZB-G8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 00:52:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9RU0-0000U5-AZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 00:52:11 -0500 Received: from mail-lf0-x236.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c07::236]:33517) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9RU0-0000Tz-2c for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 00:52:08 -0500 Received: by mail-lf0-x236.google.com with SMTP id p203so45050313lfa.0 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 21:52:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8QCvBv5RfTl5KH6Vv6kibvdjhov+GsgaoHy1OVfxc8Y=; b=ia/q0X5ip+Ohr/Os+s9vITZYvaWIwCSc+Ypqpd8DvjL65BCm0ILK5wnvf7htIzgj/h dcmBZHqTs2WkAH0bfn8BcNWYaw2BYkrwGG0QNWogvvk4Fz6R6pjPG0UMck97a3PzMcbP F26Czq3kPTFmQ6dEwzN1ePKNT1sJB6VjjaeyNbtfXML3h/AlwkwL6mEuVbxi1OEBcJmW GricMt438ZGcSCd1eP+cdVCnBHvu19dAhHRp/mHEjzJs1y+JbLwF/TlYUTWXhscT/CEI IXnPvV/eVShI6Kqy3weZeP/iMZ+bj8sEETBxG3UJiV6bjt3qWzt6FURmu6VRMTwH4h3B vdDg== X-Received: by 10.25.91.210 with SMTP id p201mr8998859lfb.37.1450331527217; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 21:52:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.41] (ppp91-76-25-247.pppoe.mtu-net.ru. [91.76.25.247]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l67sm1654316lfl.26.2015.12.16.21.52.06 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 16 Dec 2015 21:52:06 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Mouse support for just the wheel and left button. To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <20151217025233.2fc91690@z68> From: Andrei Borzenkov X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <56724D85.40407@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 08:52:05 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151217025233.2fc91690@z68> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c07::236 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 05:52:12 -0000 17.12.2015 05:52, John Murphy пишет: > Hello and thanks for Grub. I use it daily. > You need to boot so often? :) > 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. 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.