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

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 16 March 2015 at 14:45, Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 16, 2015, at 10:43 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 16 March 2015 at 14:38, Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mar 16, 2015, at 10:00 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>>> On 16 March 2015 at 13:48, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>> 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 ?
>>>>
>>>> Works for me on a 2011 MacBook Air running Mavericks, anyway.
>>
>>> Are you saying you are able to scroll up and down in QEMU's monitor
>>> using your MacBook Air's keyboard?
>>
>> I haven't attempted to use the monitor. I'm just saying that
>> on my OSX it does turn those keys into pageup/down.
>
> Please try scrolling in the Monitor. I don't think it will work due
> to missing functionality.

I've now tested again with my not-just-the-laptop setup, and:

 * in the guest OS (I tested with a Linux guest), PageUp/Down
   work OK and work the same whether I use an external USB
   keyboard with a physical PgUp/Down key or the MacBook Air's
   keyboard with Fn+UpArrow/Fn+DownArrow as the chord to
   input pageup/down
 * in the monitor window, neither way of inputting PageUp/Down
   works: all you get is a ',' input into the monitor

So my conclusion is that we should fix the underlying
problem that the monitor isn't handling PgUp/PgDown
correctly (not sure exactly why that's not working yet).

If your particular OSX version really doesn't implement
the Fn+Up/Down == PageUp/Down chord then I think you should
address that at the OSX level, not in QEMU (there are
likely several OSX utilities that will do the job).

thanks
-- PMM