Q: Powerbutton makes my Macbook Air go straight to sleep

Oh my god this has been furiating for me. I've hit the power button on accident an amount of times that I'm not proud of. It's way to close to the delete key on my macbook air. For a while I thought it was just my computer making an error, but now I read that they purposely made it this way with the Maverick update?!?!? I really needed to vent on here.

Any of you saying to just not hit the power button are nuts. We're obviously not trying to hit the power button.

It was perfectly fine before. Why'd they need to change it? When the option window came up immediately upon pressing the power button you could still chose to sleep. Which takes an extra half second. This way I'm actively using my laptop when I'm suddently forced to wake my laptop back up and log in again. ***? This has also caused my laptop to freeze numerous times. I guess throwing my laptop into sleep mode randomly while I have a bunch of windows/videos playing isn't optimal. Who would've thought?

Jesus apple just make it an option. Would that have been so hard? Don't try to force dumb things on me when I was perfectly happy before.

http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1q9dmc/mavericks_power_key_behavior/cdaou xw

Answer courtesy of:  Tuttle

workaround still not present

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5869?viewlocale=en_US

Peace

Thanks mashahr!

The following command seems to work for me.  When I hit the power button by accident the first time, it won't do anything!

     sudo pmset -a autopoweroff 0

You can type pmset -g to see your current config. 

I like that this has been implemented. I find it quite handy. But I'm not everyone.

This hasn't been much of a problem for me since I have a Late 2007 MBP, but I've noticed it too. I recently updated Mavericks and it seems to be gone. I haven't entered any Terminal commands or anything, so I guess Apple has fixed it.

-LittlePlanet

EDIT: Apple has changed the amount of time needed to put the laptop to sleep. It is no longer a single tap on the power button, it's a longer hold. If it's shorter than what is needed for the dialogue box, the laptop will be put to sleep.

This just showed up - perhaps 10.9.2 reinstated the feature.

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20140305140635280

In Terminal…

defaults write com.apple.loginwindow PowerButtonSleepsSystem -bool no

Drew Reese: You sir, are genius and you deserve to be praised by all internet

but when i tap/press power button nothing will happen please tell me the solution my mac bookpro wouldn't go in sleep mode or in display off mode

zizonesol wrote:

 

Drew Reese: You sir, are genius and you deserve to be praised by all internet

Hurrah, finally the recognition my mother says I deserve

Hehe, leave some praise on the MacOSXhints site too, Apple need to see people want this feature.