[Bug 1178618] Re: --hotkey option does not work when the menu is hidden

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This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 2.00-21

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grub2 (2.00-21) unstable; urgency=low


  [ Robert Millan ]
  * Backport from upstream:
    - Accept ZFS version 5000 (feature based).

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Silence error message on initial installation when /etc/default/grub
    does not yet exist.
  * Add GRUB_RECOVERY_TITLE option, to allow the controversial "recovery
    mode" text to be customised (LP: #1240360).
  * Backport from upstream:
    - Revamp hidden timeout handling by adding a new timeout_style
      environment variable and a corresponding GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE
      configuration key for grub-mkconfig.  This controls hidden-timeout
      handling more simply than the previous arrangements, and pressing any
      hotkeys associated with menu entries during the hidden timeout will
      now boot the corresponding menu entry immediately (LP: #1178618).  As
      part of merging this, radically simplify the mess that
      quick_boot.patch had made of /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober; if it finds
      other OSes it can now just set timeout_style=menu and make sure the
      timeout is non-zero.
    - Fix build with FreeType 2.5.1.

 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org>  Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:53:32 +0000

** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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Title:
  --hotkey option does not work when the menu is hidden

Status in GRand Unified Bootloader:
  New
Status in OEM Priority Project:
  Confirmed
Status in OEM Priority Project precise series:
  Confirmed
Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “grub2” source package in Precise:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  
  Grub2 can detect key modifier status in 'sleep --interruptible', 
  so that you can interrupt the sleep by pressing Shift.
  (src: grub-core/commands/sleep.c)

  It will be useful if grub2 can also detect function key status,
  so user can boot to pre-defined grub menu entry by press specified
  function key.

  Here is a proposed command name and usage.

  - getfunctionkey -i {sec} {keyname}

  Here is an example of configuration that user can start memory test
  whiling he is pressing F9.

  ```
  if ! getfunctionkey -i 3 f9 ; then
  menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {                                                                                                                                                                           
          insmod part_msdos
          insmod ext2
          set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
          search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root d458babc-81f0-4dd7-ac88-410407141e2c
          linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
  }
  fi
  ```

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