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Kirk McElhearn (apparently)
- 01:07am Oct 10, 2006 PSTvia email From TidBITS:
> For me, an additional argument would also be useful: powerbutton.
> Setting powerbutton to 1 - its default value is 0 - turns the power
> button into a dedicated sleep button. Otherwise, the power button
> brings up a dialog listing Sleep along with Restart and Shut Down.
> Since I never press the button except to then click Sleep, this is a
> nice time saver - except that my particular PowerBook doesn't
> support this option.
As I'm sure you've been told since this appeared on the TidBITS blog,
this function is also accessible from the Energy Saver preference
pane, under the Options tab...
Kirk
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Re: Power button
On 11/10/06 09:42, "Remo Del Bello" <remo+tidbits  delbello.com> wrote:
> Or if you don't want to change the behavior of the power button, just follow
> the advice in this tip < http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/quicksleep.html> and
> press Command-Option-Eject to directly put your Mac to sleep.
Interesting - my old Wallstreet used to have a key-combo to put it to sleep
(shift-cmd-option-zero, IIRC). That disappeared on the AlBooks but I found
another method - one that's even quicker than a 2 second hold-down:
Hit the power button to get the Restart/Sleep/Shutdown dialog, then hit the
'S' key. It's at least a 50% time saving on the Apple method (if that extra
second is important to you!)
--
Barry
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Re: Power button
On Oct 11, 2006, at 1:42 AM, Remo Del Bello wrote:
> press Command-Option-Eject to directly put your Mac to sleep
Ah, yes. The intuitive Macintosh interface.
(Snide remarks aside, it does work--it seems to "take" when command
and option--or one of them--is released.)
--John (who happened to have a sleeping Macbook he could wake up
to try this)
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Re: Power button
On 10/10/06 4:07 AM, "Kirk McElhearn" <kirk mcelhearn.com> deftly typed :
> As I'm sure you've been told since this appeared on the TidBITS blog,
> this function is also accessible from the Energy Saver preference
> pane, under the Options tab...
Not on my MacBook Pro OS 10.4..8
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Re: Power button
On Oct 11, 2006, at 3:54 PM, Max Manshel wrote:
>> As I'm sure you've been told since this appeared on the TidBITS blog,
>> this function is also accessible from the Energy Saver preference
>> pane, under the Options tab...
>
> Not on my MacBook Pro OS 10.4..8
Nor on my iBook G4 1.42 OS 10.4.8
Jean
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Ross Orr
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Oct 17, 2006 8:22 am
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Re: Power button
I also wanted a dedicated "sleep" button (having killed the hinge on my former powerbook by opening and closing the lid a dozen times a day).
What worked for me was opening System Preferences->Keyboard & Mouse->Keyboard Shortcuts->Application Keyboard Shortcuts->All Applications; and assigning "Sleep" to F8 (press fn to enter this). I believe you need to log out and back in for changes to take effect.
This seems to work fine in all contexts except Photoshop Elements, which assigns F8 to opening one of the tool palettes...
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Re: Power button
This discussion threw me into a state of confusion.
Have I or have I not all these years been using the Power button with:
R for restart,
S for sleep,
and Return for shutdown?
These actions seem so natural to me that they don't even register.
I just confirmed the sleep action, but (thanks to Jim Fowler and ForgetMeNot) reloading my 50 odd unread Safari tabs just to confirm the others seems unneccesary. Try for yourself.
Don't know about the Intel machines.
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