It also works, of course, while logged in. I'm not sure of any workarounds for non-eject-key keyboards. Anyone?
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If you'd like to put your Mac to sleep while sitting at the login screen, there's a way to do it ... at least, there is if you have an eject key on your keyboard. Control-eject will bring up a "restart, sleep, or shutdown" dialog box, even while logged out. So just log out and then hit control-eject, and you can put your machine to sleep.
It also works, of course, while logged in. I'm not sure of any workarounds for non-eject-key keyboards. Anyone?
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power key
at any time you can use the power key to bring up a dialog showing you a shutdown, reboot ans sleep option, just press "S" when the dialog is on the screen and the system will go to sleep. I'm not sure that I tried it after upgrade to 10.1 but in 10.0.4 and in all OS 9 versions it worked
power key
Newer macs goes to sleep directly if you just push the power button on the computer, or (if you have one) the apple-display. No dialog is involved.
power key, power key
...and if you hold in the power key long enough the system will shut down.
More keyboard shortcuts
Also... Command-Control-Eject = Restart (not a forced restart like the old three finger slaute!)
F12 = no go
I tried this yesterday; it didn't work with the other keys. The power key on newer Macs definitely works.
what id really like to know...
...is how to enable the screen saver at the login screen. i saw a hack for this a while ago but cant find it.
And one more key combo...
Command-option-eject to sleep right away.
What I'd like to know...
is how to keep my computer AWAKE when its on the login screen! Or even better, sleep the monitor but keep the coomputer awake, so my web site will stay up.
...and the Answer
Use the Energy Saver control panel. Set the computer to NEVER SLEEP and have it sleep the display separately after the shortest reasonable interval - say 5 minutes or so. For a web server you should uncheck "Put the hard disk to sleep when possible." |
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