I want to easily lock the screen on Mac OS X, preferably without using the mouse or having to install any other utilities. Assuming the security setting requiring a password to wake from sleep or screensaver is set, here is what I have found:
Control-Eject
key sequence will bring up the Restart, Sleep, Shutdown dialog window. Presss
to put the computer to sleep. From comments on The Design of the Mac OS X Shutdown Feature via Keyboard shortcut of the day.- Add
/System/Library/Frameworks/Screensaver.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app
to the Dock (via Quickly lock your screen). Unfortunately Spotlight doesn't seem to find this app, however the keyboard shortcut to open the Dock isControl-F3
and typingsc
selects the ScreenSaverEngine.
Command-Alt-Eject
will put the mac to sleep. Thanks to Kristian.
No comments:
Post a Comment