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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

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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