10.9: Disable power button sleep

Thanks!!!!! I REALLY love you! Finally this stupid button don't make in stop inadvertently the macbook while I'm tiping

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great stuff thanks ;) will test asap.

For what it's worth, they changed the behavior slightly in 10.9.2. A momentary touch does nothing.

1.5 seconds goes to sleep, and about 2-4 gives the dialog box.

Thank you, Barney-15E!

The news about the 10.9.2 update is actually the change that I needed (as opposed to the change that I said I wanted to see.)  Having nothing happen when I accidentally type the power key, as opposed to the delete key I mean to type, is actually much better than having the dialogue appear.

As far as I'm concerned, the problem has been fixed in an elegant way.

Thanks for taking the time to post this news!

lrc

While this is slightly better, the question begged is about having to 'learn' a new behavior. And the lack of a setting ot choose how YOU are happiest.

(Which last, sardonically/cynically, is what the Apple business model purports to be REALLY all about.)

CT provided a link to the Terminal Command that disables the Power Button sleep.  I concur, it would be better if this were on some System Preference Panel, but it is there.

I find that I don't have to change *my* behavior with the new 10.9.2 update....  So no new learning is needed for me.  What new behavior are *you* going to have to "learn"?

None, I always....

10•9•2+ ONLY

Change the Mavericks Default Power Button functionality back to previous function:

defaults write com.apple.loginwindow PowerButtonSleepsSystem -bool no

This DOES NOT work in 10•9•1.

APPLE -- YOUR NEW POWER BUTTON FUNCTIONALITY IS HORRIBLE -- CHANGE IT BACK !!

It's real sad that companies like Apple and Adobe are going the directions they are going - they are gaining new customers at the expense of their long term User bases that got them to this point in the first place.  Alienating those customes is not a good thing.  Why change the functionality after 30 years ?  It's a krappy behavior and wastes time when someone that has been used to 30 years of the old method - doesn't remeber the new and ends up locking the computer instead of expecting a Shutdown dialog - then having to relog into the system just to shut it down again.  All you managed to do is to make it a longer process to shutdown a Macintosh now.

Adobe already has me shopping around for NON-Adobe alternatives to their software.  And now Apple is pushing me in the same direction.  Probably the last gen of Macs I ever buy and probably start looking more into Linux.  Thanks for making the choice easy Apple.

FYI - for those Users insistant on telling me about the FEEDBACK Form - already done. AND do not delude yourselves into thinking that APPLE pays zero attention to the content in their Support Communities.  If enough people complain about something here they do pay attention and it is more accessible than their Feedback page.

Good points Jp. One has to wonder, at what point does Apple tip us with a critical mass of such changes that make long-time users have to fight against previously disciplined ways of working.

This one is merely one among many. iTunes is a real minefield and changes at every minor version update. Menu items that were 'there' are now 'over here' or buried in tabs that never existed before. Yada yada, on and on. Whether any of these changes are better is a good question. Apple introduced 'natural' scrolling awhile back, i.e. movement in the opposite sense to that which one had achieved by moving the mouse or the cursor in the past.

Was this an improvement or merely a change? At least in that case Apple did leave a settings option. He who wishes may keep the old, one might say original, sense of scroll movement.

You can hit "control" then tap the power button like you used too. I am like you and preferred the old functionality. It's an extra step, but one that's not totally annoying.

Can I refer an article?  Thanks to Cory Bohon.

Easy Mac Hacks: Stop Power Button from Activating Sleep

http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/easy_mac_hacks_stop_power_button_activatin g_sleep?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10011&utm_term=3701638& utm_content=11970

Let me know if the method works.:-)

Ivan H wrote:

 

Let me know if the method works.:-)

Why, didn't you test it before posting?

thanks !