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10.6: Set precise screensaver password activation delay
This is actually the most annoying changes in 10.6. In Leopard, only Screen Saver and System Sleep asked for a password. Which was nice and expected. But since I use my laptop more home than elsewhere, I don't like to write the password everytime I leave my Mac for a little longer and then come back. In 10.5, this was easy with setting the Screen Saver never to go off, and using only Screen Sleep. When not at home, I could use something like LockTight or Active Screen Corner to start the Screen Saver, for the password to be required.
10.6: Set precise screensaver password activation delay
Having submitted feedback to Apple some five months ago, I had hoped that they would have separated the event that triggers the screensaver from the other event that sets the Mac off to sleep. And that a new option could be set to require a password purely for 'wake-up from sleep'.
10.6: Set precise screensaver password activation delay
I'm experiencing this too and I think it's a bug worth reporting to Apple. The issue is that Snow Leopard treats display sleep the same as screensaver and system sleep when display sleep has never been the same before. I should be able to put my display to sleep and not have to enter my password, especially when screensaver is set to never.
10.6: Set precise screensaver password activation delay
Since we don't usually want the computer to lock at home, but do at work/school, my brother and I use a widget to quickly change the settings. I showed this hint to him, and he wrote a new version so it is easy to set the lock time and choose between a screensaver and immediate sleep.
http://ch4productions.com/dashboard/#padlock2
WTF? Snow Leopard can emulate Leopard
What you’re saying is wrong. Snow Leopard, when set to “Always ask for a password,” behaves exactly like Leopard. And you can still tell Screensaver never to invoke. So you can still do it the way Leopard did it, but with Snow Leopard you have additional, finer-grained choices.
That said, i’m annoyed that Apple didn’t give us separate controls for Wake from Sleep, and Screensaver. That way one could tell it never to lock the screen from Screensaver, but always from Wake from Sleep. And they should have used a slider, not a menu. At least this hint works around the brain-dead menu choices, and for that i’m grateful. |
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