[X4U] Powerbook power button...

silvo conticello silvoc at tiscali.it
Sun Jan 16 11:36:09 PST 2005


>> Unfortunately, when I choose the latter, I still have to use the 
>> mouse (or trackpad), because I get a window of 4 options come up, and 
>> I have to click on the "sleep" option. If I wished to shutdown, I 
>> could just press the enter key, as this is highlighted in blue, but I 
>> almost never want to shut-down the machine - does anyone know if it's 
>> possible to change the default, so that I can put my Powerbook to 
>> sleep just by pressing the power button and then "enter"?
>
> Try hitting the "S" key for Sleep, or thr "R" for Restart and of 
> course, the Escape key for Cancel. And another tip I just 
> learned--when there are two buttons highlighted, one of which is 
> "fully" highlighted to trigger by the Return key and the other is only 
> slightly highlighted, hitting the spacebar triggers that one. Hope 
> that made sense.
> ciao,
> Vince

Great tip! Thanks!
And hopefully it will work also in other cases!

Silvo

Silvo Conticello
Albook 17" 1.5GHz/1.5Gb RAM/80Gb HD/OS10.3.5
iMac 1GHz/500Mb Ram/80Gb HD/OS10.3.5/17" display
E-mail: silvoc at tiscali.it
Cambridge
UK



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