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Sleep displays with password protection
Authored by: greebly on Jul 29, '09 10:33:05AM

Why not just use the hot corner built-in and hit the screen-off keystroke sequence?

Control-Shift-Eject

I put my screen in to screen-saver mode, wait a few seconds for the screen to actually lock (if the mouse moves or keys are pressed too soon it will wake without locking) and hit Control-Shift-Eject. Shuts the display off instantaneously.

It works on every Mac I have (MacBook Pro 15", iMac 24", PowerMac G4 733 hacked to run 10.5) and gives me no grief.

This is of course dependent on having a keyboard with the Eject key... :)

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Sleep displays with password protection
Authored by: slb on Jul 29, '09 11:39:41AM

Amen.
Don't get some of the hoop-jumping that goes on sometimes...



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Sleep displays with password protection
Authored by: Anonymous on Aug 01, '09 05:14:12PM

Control-Shift-Eject on my G4 PB 1.67 running 10.4 only causes the password dialog to appear.

More detail please? Is this a 10.5-only thing?



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