Submission details
"Different" shutdown menu in the new Snow Leopard (10.6)
(this applies to the new Snow Leopard (10.6) )
When using the Ctrl-EJECT shortcut to invoke the "restart/shutdown" menu
in the new Snow Leopard (10.6) there is only the ShutDown button selected.
It is nothing wrong with that but in the previous Leopard in this menu there was ShutDown selected and also the Restart button was selected so you could easily and quickly tap the Enter key to ShutDown or tap the Space key to restart. Now to restart
you have to press it with the mouse.
In the image:
top: Leopard
bottom: Snow Leopard
I like the old way more than the new one.
Medium
Medium
Fixed
Discussion (3 comments)
Are you sure. I'm running snow leopard atm, and if is press the power button om my macbook pro or use the key combo ctrl-eject, it works as in leopard: restart is selected and shut down is blue/grey. So I can use space bar to restart and return to shut down.
Edit: I found the solution. You have to enable "keyboard controll" in the keyboard prefpane on the second tab. If this is enabled, you can tab through all widgets.
(@mojo2012) You are right! It is obviously my mistake or a different
setting in my previous Leopard system. Now when I enabled "keyboard control" in the keyboard prefpane everything is as it should be.
Maybe it will be a useful tip for others.
Changed status from [Not fixed] to [Fixed]
Also, it might be noteworthy to mention that in the shut down dialog by pressing:
R = restart
S = sleep
Esc = cancel
Enter = shut down
bastyani wrote on August 30, 2009, 1:06pm
Changed problem description.