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 <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> 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 > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
