Splendid! Short of some sort of dwrite incantation that magically makes a Sleep button appear, the Cmd/Opt/Eject combo works perfectly! Thanks! -Carl
On Aug 17, 2014, at 9:06 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > Hah! > > My first response was to answer, "You could just use a feature of long > standing: the “'hot corner’” — but when I researched it I realized it can > only put your display to sleep, not the Mac. > > Instead, just use the Apple keyboard shortcut for sleep. There are two of > them, depending on whether your Mac/keyboard has a “media eject button” or > not: > > Command-Option-Media Eject keys if you do > (http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11242); > > Power button, if you don’t (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343) > > On Aug 17, 2014, at 11:21 AM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> In OSX 10.9.4 Sys Prefs, under the Users & Groups —> Login Options, there’s >> an option that allows you to “Show the Sleep, Restart, and Shut Down >> buttons” on the login window. >> >> Is there such a setting somewhere that allows the Sleep button to be >> displayed when a password-protected screen saver is running? Currently it >> only shows the Cancel and Switch User buttons. I would find it very useful >> to be able to put the machine to sleep without having to re-login to it. >> >> -Carl >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
