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Re: Shutting down without a mouse

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On 2015-10-02 18:51, JF Mezei wrote:
> This afternoon, I had to change my mouse's battery.
>
> For some reason Yosemite failed to re-connect to the mouse (or
> vice-versa). (I have a USB Bluetooth dongle because the MacPro is below
> a tick desk that shields bluetooth frequencies).
>
> Is there a keyboard way to invoke the Apple menu or invoke the Shutdown
> item from the Apple menu of the Mac ?
>
> I ended up telnetting to my mac from laptop to use the sudo shutdown -h
> now command.
>
> (And later, setup X11 to have a hotkey to create an xterm so it could be
> done locally).
>
> This may have been a fluke or may have become part of normal process to
> require a hutdown when mouse is disconnected and reconnected again.
> (this worked fine in Snow Leppard).

I just keep a wired old mouse handy for these situations.  And a 
keyboard somewhere too.

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Shutting down without a mouse JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-02 18:51 -0400
  Re: Shutting down without a mouse Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-02 18:53 -0400
    Re: Shutting down without a mouse gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-10-02 21:03 -0700
  Re: Shutting down without a mouse Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-02 23:12 +0000
    Re: Shutting down without a mouse RonTheGuy@null.invalid (Ron) - 2015-10-03 15:15 -0700
      Re: Shutting down without a mouse Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-03 22:23 +0000
      Re: Shutting down without a mouse Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-10-04 13:35 -0400
  Re: Shutting down without a mouse Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-10-02 16:58 -0700
    Re: Shutting down without a mouse JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-02 22:29 -0400
    Re: Shutting down without a mouse Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-03 08:26 -0400
      Re: Shutting down without a mouse Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-03 16:25 +0000
        Re: Shutting down without a mouse Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-10-03 10:09 -0700
        Re: Shutting down without a mouse Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-03 17:41 -0400
  Re: Shutting down without a mouse Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-10-03 13:08 +1200
  Re: Shutting down without a mouse Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2015-10-03 07:55 +0200

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