10.6: Sleep and lock display with hot corner

Sep 22, '09 07:30:03AM

Contributed by: benfsmith

In previous versions of OS X, hot corners would not lock the screen when invoking display sleep, even if the security settings specified it.

The closest thing you could do was to use a screen saver like BlackenedPixels. This, however, was not always reliable for turning off the backlight. Snow Leopard appears to fix this behavior, as it really puts the display to sleep and locks it when you have a hot corner set to activate display sleep.

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