Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: Give laptop users ability to scroll in monitor

[Programmingkid]

On Mar 16, 2015, at 9:48 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 04:43:54PM -0400, Programmingkid wrote:
>> 
>> On Mar 13, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 13/03/2015 15:48, Programmingkid wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 13, 2015, at 5:51 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 13 March 2015 at 04:35, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> Laptop users usually have keyboards that are missing the page up and 
>>>>>> page down keys. This means they cannot scroll in the monitor. This patch 
>>>>>> gives laptop users the ability to scroll in the monitor by having the 
>>>>>> user push the Control + Up/Down arrow keys to scroll one line at a time. 
>>>>>> Use ALT/Option in place of Control to be able to scroll at 10 lines at a 
>>>>>> time.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Don't the standard OSX function+up/down for pageup/down work?
>>>>> If they don't we should probably figure out why rather than
>>>>> adding a non-standard key combo.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- PMM
>>>> 
>>>> On my MacBook Pro, this functionality is missing. There is no way to do a 
>>>> page up or page down key. 
>>> 
>>> How do you do that in a terminal?
>>> 
>>> Paolo
>> 
>> I'm not sure what exactly you're asking. I will say past Apple
>> laptop did have the ability to page up or down by using the
>> function key + the up or down arrow keys. It looks like Apple
>> removed that ability. I tried using function key + up, control
>> key + up, option key + up, and command key + up. These do not
>> cause the Monitor to scroll without the patch.
> 
> The docs[1] still refer to fn+up/down as the way to achieve page up/down,
> so perhaps your install has simply lost the shortcut mappings ?
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
> 
> [1] https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201236
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Your document does state that using fn+up/down arrow keys emulate the page up 
and down keys, but this isn't universally true for all Apple Laptops. My 2010 
MacBook Pro is such an example of removed page up/down key emulation.