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. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
