Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Click here to return to the '10.6: Lock the screen via a keyboard shortcut' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
10.6: Lock the screen via a keyboard shortcut
Authored by: Typhoon14 on Sep 08, '09 10:56:52AM

I almost feel this should be turned into a more general hint. A lot of people probably haven't realized, but with the ability to create new services with Automator and the ability to assign them keyboard shortcuts, we essentially have a built-in shortcut manager along the lines of applications like Spark. In addition to its built-in and third-party templates, automator allows you to execute any applescript or shell script. Between the two, you can create an account-wide keyboard shortcut to do virtually anything.

One thing to note, whenever you invoke one these universal services via the keyboard, you are actually invoking it in the Services menu of the currently active application (you will see the application menu flash). I was concerned that this would not work in all Applications, however Services that require no input seem to work everywhere, even in Applications that do not support Services (e.g., Firefox). Cool!



[ Reply to This | # ]