Read my previous post. But I understand why you chose to ignore itYou clearly don't own a mac at all then do you. Three of my macs don't sleep when power is pressed on 10.9 it's the same as pressing shift Ctrl eject on the older macs
Read my previous post. But I understand why you chose to ignore itYou clearly don't own a mac at all then do you. Three of my macs don't sleep when power is pressed on 10.9 it's the same as pressing shift Ctrl eject on the older macs
Here's the problem. Some people apparently don't realize that you can hold down the power button for a couple of seconds and the same dialog appears. And for others, a third party extension called KeyRemap4Macbook is preventing the Macbook from doing that in Mavericks which they claim they will fix.
I own both a Macbook Pro and a Mac Mini. I know that tapping the power button will put the Macbook Pro to sleep. And doing the same thing will put the Mac Mini to sleep. Of course you can close the MacBook lid as an alternative but you can't on the Mac Mini or iMac so if the behavior for the button was different, then things wouldn't be consistent. And a single tap to sleep is faster than having to respond to a dialog. Also like most people, I put my machine to sleep far more often than I shut it off so this change makes all the sense in the world.
What's even better is that this behavior is also the same for my iPhone and iPad. So you don't have to think whether you're on a Macbook or iMac or Mac Mini or iPhone or iPad. It just consistently works.
you can also click on the apple logo top left and select shut down...
This is so obvious that I can't understand how some people are on Apple's side on this matter. But, obviously, we will have to just accept it and get used to it.Just to reiterate- I wouldn't care WHAT the frakking power button did, if I had the OPTION of selecting the function.
A tiny inadvertent tap turns my 2012 MBA screen black interrupting whatever work I was doing. I would prefer that it brings up the familiar sleep/shutdown, etc dialog box.
I am getting REALLY tired of this dumbing down of the Mac OS. I've never had a problem distinguishing between my iPhone and my laptop. (Nor an ass from an elbow for that matter.) I don't need identical operating systems- ESPECIALLY if that means dumbing down my laptop. Now if they wanted to smarten up the iOS, that's another thing.
What's next? Will some medieval (and unaccountable) government entity start designating any standing water on my property a "protected wetland," limiting the size of our soft drinks or changing the recipe for our favorite french fries?
Just to reiterate- I wouldn't care WHAT the frakking power button did, if I had the OPTION of selecting the function.
A tiny inadvertent tap turns my 2012 MBA screen black interrupting whatever work I was doing. I would prefer that it brings up the familiar sleep/shutdown, etc dialog box.
I am getting REALLY tired of this dumbing down of the Mac OS. I've never had a problem distinguishing between my iPhone and my laptop. (Nor an ass from an elbow for that matter.) I don't need identical operating systems- ESPECIALLY if that means dumbing down my laptop. Now if they wanted to smarten up the iOS, that's another thing.
What's next? Will some medieval (and unaccountable) government entity start designating any standing water on my property a "protected wetland," limiting the size of our soft drinks or changing the recipe for our favorite french fries?
A million facepalms to this kind of comments.I think this is ok. Becouse now it is acting the same way as the ios device power button.
Not a problem for me. If you are so angry about one button behavior than buy a HP laptop eith windows 8 feature to change power button behavior.
I am surprised no one posted the Apple Document OS X Mavericks: Using the power button.
This works! Thanks!10.9.2 ONLY:
defaults write com.apple.loginwindow PowerButtonSleepsSystem -bool no
This reverts 10.9.2 back to pre Mavericks functionality. There is still a slight delay.
I did a clean install of Yosemite and power button reverted to going to immediate sleep.10.9.2 ONLY:
defaults write com.apple.loginwindow PowerButtonSleepsSystem -bool no
This reverts 10.9.2 back to pre Mavericks functionality. There is still a slight delay.
Pretty sure it's been mentioned a couple times in the 'all the little things' thread.
Press - sleep
Short hold - dialogue (sleep, shutdown, restart)
Long hold - forced power down