Oh, what a nice feature to know about. Thanks! Donna On Aug 4, 2009, at 4:54 PM, Blake Sinnett wrote:
> If you'd like, you can bypass that dialog and put your mac straight > to sleep with Option-Command-Eject. > > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: when closing lid > Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 10:46:53 -1000 > > Hi Donna, > > I usually take the precaution of putting my MacBook to sleep before > I close the lid. If you press the circular power just above the > rightmost key at the top of your keyboard, a system dialog window > will come up. You'll hear "loginwindow system dialog Restart > button". VO-left arrow and there will be an announcement: "Are you > sure you want to shut down your computer now?" VO-right arrow from > the announcement and you will get the buttons for "Restart", > "Sleep", "Cancel", and "Shut Down". If you VO-right arrow to the > "Sleep" button and press it (VO-Space), your MacBook should be put > to sleep. This should work even if for some reason your computer > does not correctly sense that the lid is closed and go to sleep. If > your fans are running, and you use this method to put your MacBook > to sleep, you should shortly hear them stop running. Close the > lid. If you want to bring the MacBook out of its sleep state (and > you didn't close the lid), just press any key. I usually press the > Fn key at the lower left of the keyboard to do this. > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On Aug 4, 2009, at 10:05, Donna Goodin wrote: > > No. I'll try it again later, and if it does, I will do that. Thanks. > Donna > On Aug 4, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > > Did you have an external keyboard attached? I have encountered > situations where even the PC laptop my employer provided has not > gone to sleep and I pulled it out of my backpack to find it nearly > melting down. :) If it continues, you may want to have a chat with > Apple Care. > On Aug 4, 2009, at 8:30 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Are there any situations when it doesn't do this? I ask because a > few days ago I closed the lid, wanting it to go to sleep, but it > didn't. About every 30 seconds, it made that noise that it makes > when VO first comes on. > Donna > > From: Marie Howarth <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 8:20 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: when closing lid > > hybernating? it's called sleeping on the mac and that is what it > does when you close the lid. > > On Aug 4, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Blake Sinnett wrote: > > Not necessarily What if you want it to hybernate? Wouldn't this be > in apple>system preferences>Energy Saver? > > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: when closing lid > > Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 01:22:40 -1000 > > > > > > What do you mean "control"? If you close any laptop if goes to sleep > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > On Aug 4, 2009, at 1:14 AM, william lomas > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > hi how do I control the behaviour of the mac when i close the lid > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
