Mac OS X keystrokes during startup
To Shutdown or let Sleep your Mac press:
Control-Eject » Opens the Shutdown dialog. Choose to shutdown, restart, or put your Mac to sleep. Hit "R" for restart, "S" for sleep and cmd-period for cancel.
Command-Option-Eject » Holding down for several seconds puts your Mac to sleep without a confirmation dialog.
Command-Option-Control-Eject » Shuts down your Mac after asking you whether or not to save any open documents.
Power button » Puts your Mac to sleep without a confirmation dialog.
Remarks
- 'Command' also known as
'Apple
key' (⌘;
the Apple key symbol
disappeared from keyboards released
on august 7th 2007 and later) - 'Option' also known as 'Alt'
- 'Function' also known as ' Fn'
