Hi Esther, When using the method you mentioned below, you can simply press the "s" key when the dialog is up and your Mac will go to sleep. Too bad that didn't work for my kids when they were little and needed a nap.
FYI, "r" will restart and return will Shutdown. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2010-11-04, at 7:47 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Mark, > > I usually put my Mac to sleep by briefly pressing the power on/off button. > This brings up a dialog window with the prompt about whether I'm sure I want > to shut down with buttons for restart, sleep, cancel, and shut down. I find > that pressing the "sleep button" always works to put my Mac to sleep (even if > I have to wait a little for it to happen), while sometimes just closing the > lid does not put my Mac to sleep directly. (This is usually when there are > some processes running, and things are a bit busy. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Nov 04, 2010, at 03:38 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > >> I have Energy Saving, but nothing under there, either battery or power >> adapter tabs, about lid behavior. >> >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
