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> Putting the display to sleep easily by moving the mouse cursor in the corner is nice (I’d still prefer a keyboard shortcut), and can be enabled in the system preferences:

You can lock the screen with cmd+ctrl q.

Control–Shift–Power button* or Control–Shift–Media Eject : Put your displays to sleep.

Here are some other keyboard shortcuts: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236

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There is no power button anymore:

> * Does not apply to the Touch ID sensor.

I have not found a way yet to reliably put the device to sleep from keyboard. With a shortcut it wakes immediately, maybe because it registers the letting go of the keys as a wakeup signal.

If you mean sleeping the display and not the whole computer, I ended up defining a hot corner to do it in the Displays preference pane in System Preferences. Then I can just swipe the mouse/trackpad to that corner without worrying about overshooting, works every time. I used to use the keyboard shortcut until I got a Mac without the power/eject keys.

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