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How do I put my Mac Pro to sleep by pressing the power button?
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"Alt+Cmd+eject" is quick enough for me.
Or "Cntrl+eject" to bring up the shutdown dialog
Or "Cntrl+eject" to bring up the shutdown dialog
Well, I don't have a Mac Pro, but on my iMac and MacBook Pro, it's not pressing the power button, but holding it down for just a little bit. Not long enough that it's "Kill the power", but just a little longer than a press, to avoid accidental sleeps.
Another option is using hot corners for sleep, setting up a keyboard shortcut or similar
The option to sleep the system when pressing the power button can be enabled by running the following command in terminal
to disable run
Code:
defaults write com.apple.loginwindow PowerButtonSleepsSystem -bool yesto disable run
Code:
defaults write com.apple.loginwindow PowerButtonSleepsSystem -bool no
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Apologies - I misread the OP's post and thought he wanted the shutdown menu to be presented instead of sleep when pressing the power button so I corrected my earlier post.
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You have to relogin.
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You have to relogin.
Thread hijacking a little...
I have a 2006 Mac Mini running Lion connected to a 20" Cinema Display. I want to be able to press the power button on the display to sleep the system with just that action.
Currently, when I press the power button one the display, I get this screen:
I have System Preferences -> Display -> Options set to "Pressing the display's power button puts the computer to sleep or wakes it".
I have Energy saver set to check "Allow power button to put the computer to sleep".
What is wrong here?
If I set "Pressing the display's power button turns the display on and off", it works as expected and doesn't give me the dialog box.
Edit: If I press and hold the power button on the display, nothing happens at all.
I have a 2006 Mac Mini running Lion connected to a 20" Cinema Display. I want to be able to press the power button on the display to sleep the system with just that action.
Currently, when I press the power button one the display, I get this screen:
I have System Preferences -> Display -> Options set to "Pressing the display's power button puts the computer to sleep or wakes it".
I have Energy saver set to check "Allow power button to put the computer to sleep".
What is wrong here?
If I set "Pressing the display's power button turns the display on and off", it works as expected and doesn't give me the dialog box.
Edit: If I press and hold the power button on the display, nothing happens at all.
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@weezin
As pointed out by @casperes1996 ... Press the power button and hold for a FULL 1 second, then release.
As pointed out by @casperes1996 ... Press the power button and hold for a FULL 1 second, then release.
Holding the button for any amount of time doesn't result in anything. It just sits there.
That unfortunately won't work for me due to the way I'm using the computer.
I am running it without a mouse or a keyboard and remoting in with my other computer when needed. Basically, it's being used as a "digital photo frame", and I want to be able to sleep and wake it with the power button on the monitor (which is accessible - the mac mini is hidden away). This is the reason that the power button the monitor is important and why I'm hoping that there is some solution to the problem I'm having.
Well you see the thing is apple used to allow you to sleep the Mac Pro by tapping the power button once. I used to use that method all the time. It vanished at some point probably around 10.9 era from system preferences.
Example
Interestingly enough, when mess around with my Mac Pro 5,1 on High Sierra and change the settings in the Display panel, they always revert back.
If I set the option to "Pressing the display's power button puts the computer to sleep or wakes it" and hit the back button and then go back to that page, it has reverted to "Do nothing". Same as if I choose "turns the display off". Very strange.
When set to "do nothing" and I tap the display power button, the shutdown dialog box comes up. So strange.
This makes me think that my mini is also reverting back to "do nothing", being that when I tap the power button, the same shutdown box comes up.
If I set the option to "Pressing the display's power button puts the computer to sleep or wakes it" and hit the back button and then go back to that page, it has reverted to "Do nothing". Same as if I choose "turns the display off". Very strange.
When set to "do nothing" and I tap the display power button, the shutdown dialog box comes up. So strange.
This makes me think that my mini is also reverting back to "do nothing", being that when I tap the power button, the same shutdown box comes up.
You can try TinkerTool. It has an option for toggling sleep/power button (along with a plethora of other settings).
Odd, it is missing from my system prefs on all of my machines, here is one for example:
Yeah, that's not the same ... hot corners don't allow computer sleep (nor should they).
It's now the default setting. You can still change it however. Just download TinkerTool and you can change the setting from there.
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Funnily enough, I downloaded TinkerTool 4 (an older version since my mini is running Lion) and the option to sleep using the power button isn't in there. Bummer!
Bummer... That’s all I’ve got amigo... If I think of something else, I’ll throw it your way.