After updating to Mavericks my computer will no longer wake on mouse movement. I've been through System Preferences and I don't think I missed any settings. Could be wrong though. Not sure where else to look to fix this?
Message was edited by: Walter Starks
Mac Pro (Early 2008), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), Operating system is actually 10.9.2
When the computer sleeps, the mouse LED should turn off, so mouse movement won't wake the computer. A click should wake it.
Sorry. Wasn't specific enough in my first post. The computer itself is not actually sleeping. Only the monitor. I understand that a button push will wake it, but I want to restore the proper wake on mouse movement as well. I have been doing it this way for many years and now the habit is so established that I can't break it. Not sure why this feature has stopped working.
Update-
Checked your theory about the LED since the mouse is actually connected to a USB port on the monitor, but the LED stays on even when the monitor is sleeping. Also tried plugging the mouse directly into the computer but it didn't make any difference.
What system were you running before Mavericks? I've noticed the behavior you mention on my Mac Pro since Lion, except in my case it's a Bluetooth trackpad.
Snow leopard. Surely this wasn't a deliberate change?
I don't see why not. Could be they were responding to complaints about systems waking up when somebody (or something) jostled the mouse.
Just to be sure I'm understanding correctly, this is not a problem with my system but Apple has chosen for some reason to eliminate this feature?
Since many of the Macs on the market today are portable, battery-powered devices, it makes sense that Apple is moving to NOT power most External USB devices when the computer sleeps (to save battery power).
At this writing, that option is not configurable.
If you feel strongly about that, post here:
Thanks for the reply. I could agree completely with shutting down USB devices to save battery power, but that's not what's happening. The mouse is fully powered. It's just being ignored by the computer when the monitor is asleep. Looks like this isn't something I'm going to be able to fix though short of just disabling sleep mode completely.
Can't get computer to wake on mouse movement
