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Create a screen-locking keyboard shortcut
Authored by: ChrisAllison on Jul 15, '05 04:03:39PM
Yellow Mug software's SizzlingKeys (previously SizzlingKeys for iTunes) is, IMHO, an excellent pice of software. It's a preference pane managed freeware daemon for controlling iTunes with user assignable hot keys, but it has the advantage of also having an assignable screen lock hot key, which actives the Mac OS X fast user switching login dialog. Fn + F2 on my powerbook locks the screen quickly, easily, and more securely than the screen saver password dialog.

Oh yeah, and since everyone else is saying it: windows key + L will also lock your screen in windows (not that I knew that before reading it four times in the comments, but I wanted to sound like all the other kids).

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Create a screen-locking keyboard shortcut
Authored by: wgscott on Jul 15, '05 05:35:42PM

Building on the above hint, get the application OnMyCommand and create a contextual menu item that runs the command

open /System/Library/Frameworks/Screensaver.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app

Then you can lock the screen (assuming you have set it to do so) with a click of the right mouse button (or control-click for a one-button mouse).



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