Keystroke for Sleep Function

[hughvane]

The news is good. Thanks to a Mac-buddy, I have learned how to create my own keyboard shortcuts using System Settings. Here's the YT video link

Then read the first and fifth comments, most helpful.

Caution! Don't make the same mistake I did in setting the new keystroke commands with an earlier Apple keyboard. In other words, I have duplicated them, but the commands are in the OS, so either keyboard accepts them. Hint: take out the batteries from the earlier keyboard so the MacOS does not get confused with which keyboard is operative.

The attached image shows now what I have with the earlier Magic keyboard, but then I had to repeat the (link) performance with the 2021 keyboard.

 

[hughvane]

I have "Hot Corners" set to sleep, bottom left corner, a place I never usually go.
I can explain if you're interested.

•You may inadvertently have solved an issue that has puzzled me for the past 3+ months - why the monitor screen suddenly and inexplicably (until now) darkened.

Being of older vintage, I forget things, one of them being that the OS, or I, had set the bottom L corner as Put Display To Sleep. Every so often I would unintentionally sweep the mouse pointer into that corner - and I needn't add more.


•But something else has challenged the thinking, and I'd really appreciate others' thoughts on this theory, that the Apple Bluetooth keyboard is waking the display when it goes searching for its connection to the computer.

I'd been using bottom R corner as Screen Saver, which worked okay, but every so often the whole system would get up and go again, and I believe - tho cannot physically test it - that the cause is as explained above.

Feedback?

 

[MacBiter]

•But something else has challenged the thinking, and I'd really appreciate others' thoughts on this theory, that the Apple Bluetooth keyboard is waking the display when it goes searching for its connection to the computer.

I'd been using bottom R corner as Screen Saver, which worked okay, but every so often the whole system would get up and go again, and I believe - tho cannot physically test it - that the cause is as explained above.

In System Preferences / Energy Saver, do you have "Wake for network access" checked? I don't, and I wonder if that might be the cause of your problem?.

 

[hughvane]

In System Preferences / Energy Saver, do you have "Wake for network access" checked? I don't, and I wonder if that might be the cause of your problem?.

Thank you, and yes, it is set to wake for Network Access, the default as far as I know. I'll try turning it off, but ...
Update - I set Put Display To Sleep for a couple of hours overnight, and when I woke, the screen was in full-on mode. Something woke it. More testing of either cause options over the next few days.