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Built-in sleep from keyboard
Authored by: xil on Nov 20, '02 11:02:40AM

There's an easier way to put the machine to sleep from the keyboard--2 keys and no extra software needed. You need a keyboard with a power key, or a Powerbook with a power key on top, though.

Press the power key; a dialog box will pop up asking if you want to sleep or shut down or restart or what. Just press 's' for sleep, and there you go.



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Built-in sleep from keyboard
Authored by: jda on Nov 20, '02 11:43:43AM

On newer keyboards without a power button, hit ctrl-eject and then s.

There are other ctrl-eject shortcuts that work immediately:
ctrl-cmd-eject restarts and
ctrl-opt-cmd-eject shuts down.

As for the screensaver thing, you can always set up a hot corner.



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Built-in sleep from keyboard
Authored by: adamk on Nov 20, '02 11:54:26AM

it's not keyboard based but a nice way to lock your screen is to enable the keychain access menu item. there is an option called "Lock screen". it launches the screen saver and requires a password. the nice thing is that it doesn't change your screen saver preferences permanently, just that one time.



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