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Wake MacBook on cursor movement - OSX Lion?

kyle1320

kyle1320

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Apr 23, 2011
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I upgraded to Lion today on my 2011 MacBook Pro, and I noticed that when it sleeps, I can no longer wake it up by moving my finger on the trackpad. Is there some option to change this? Also as I was typing this I noticed the Auto-correct, is there a way to turn that off too? I can already imagine Damn You Auto Correct for Mac mistakes.
 
I noticed this too! I thought it was a bug but never researched it. Good to know its a "feature," but I too would like to wake on cursor movement!
 
I noticed this too. It started during the Lion installation. My screen kept going to sleep and I would touch the trackpad and nothing happened.
I noticed under Bluetooth settings the option for allowing devices to wake the computer it does now say something about clicking the mouse or trackpad button.
 
Yes, everytime i try and wake by touching the trackpad even though i know it doesn't work anymore.:mad::D
 
I'm curious if there is a solution for this too. I miss being able to wake my iMac with a light brush from my finger.
 
mrapplegate said:
It is not a bug, just a "feature" introduced in the early builds. You will get used to it.
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I think it's a bug. If I sleep doing Apple > Sleep. Then wake from trackpad works. Only sleeping from inactivity doesn't wake from the trackpad.

In fact, for me, waking form the keyboard also doesn't work. I can only wake form the power button.
 
Shadow%20Mac said:
I think it's a bug. If I sleep doing Apple > Sleep. Then wake from trackpad works. Only sleeping from inactivity doesn't wake from the trackpad.

In fact, for me, waking form the keyboard also doesn't work. I can only wake form the power button.
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Then your system has issues. A brush of the trackpad won't wake. A press of the trackpad wakes. You also should not have to wake it with a press of the power button.
 
Shadow%20Mac said:
I think it's a bug. If I sleep doing Apple > Sleep. Then wake from trackpad works. Only sleeping from inactivity doesn't wake from the trackpad.

In fact, for me, waking form the keyboard also doesn't work. I can only wake form the power button.
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Strange, waking from the keyboard works for me. I usually hit the space bar now, it's closest to the track pad. :p I'll try doing  -> Sleep and see if swiping the trackpad works then.

EDIT: Nope, doesn't work even with  -> Sleep. I imagine it's probably a feature to keep people from waking their desktop Macs when they accidentally bump the mouse or something. There should be an option in preferences though.
 
Add me to the list of people annoyed by this. I wonder why they would change it? Were there really that many accidental wake ups by moving the mouse, and if so, what's the difference?
 
deannnnn said:
Add me to the list of people annoyed by this. I wonder why they would change it? Were there really that many accidental wake ups by moving the mouse, and if so, what's the difference?
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I'm not sure. I just know how it has been through the developer builds. I don't know Apple's rational.
 
deannnnn said:
Add me to the list of people annoyed by this. I wonder why they would change it? Were there really that many accidental wake ups by moving the mouse, and if so, what's the difference?
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Yes, because many, many optical mice sometimes give input when they aren't actually moved. This has caused many an unwanted wake-up.
 
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