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> My Macbook Air. It's better, but the power button no longer does anything when I press it.

Press and hold. It's this way to prevent accidental logouts which were frequent in my case when it was just a press.

Depending on the duration of the key press, you can send the machine to sleep, get the traditional shut down window, or invoke the forced power-off incantation, according to this support article [1].

The short tap-for-sleep method doesn't seem to work on the machine I'm using, either.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201150

Thanks. That's something that would have been really helpful to see a note on. It changed the behavior of a button that's been consistent for as long as I can remember.

It happened when the moved the button onto the keyboard. People kept hitting it by mistake and sleeping their machines.

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