Extra stuff that the eject button does on macbooks (keyboard shortcuts)

By root, 9 January, 2020
Some of us (like me) still have old macbooks that came with superdrive. Naturally, we have replaced it long time ago with a secondary disk. Wondering what to do with the now apparent "useless" eject button? Find below some useful key combinations.

control+eject

Shows a dialog box with following options: go to sleep restart shut down.

command+option+eject

Goes straight to sleep.

control+command+eject

It restarts.

control+option+command+eject

Performs shutdown.

control+shift+eject

Will sleep the display only. Enjoy ;)
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