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Create a screen-locking keyboard shortcut
Authored by: morespace54 on Jul 15, '05 09:03:49PM

or try: SHIFT+CMD+Q
or better yet: SHIFT+OPTION+CMD+Q

that should bring you back to the login window...



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Create a screen-locking keyboard shortcut
Authored by: tak on Jul 16, '05 06:04:50AM

These shortcuts will log out and quit all running apps. But the goal of this hint was to keep them running and prevent access to the computer so that one can easily resume work.

Logging out and locking screen is not the same thing.



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Create a screen-locking keyboard shortcut
Authored by: rhowell on Jul 16, '05 01:33:42PM
Please, on your computer, type shift-command-q. Does a dialog box come up stating "Are you sure you want to quit all applications and log out now?"

If not, you've installed some haxie and you're spacing out. If so, you're not understanding the hint.

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Create a screen-locking keyboard shortcut
Authored by: tak on Jul 16, '05 07:36:12PM
Yes, of course the dialog box comes up. That's exactly what I was saying. And it's exactly what this hint is not about. And just that I was saying.
Well, in the mean time I came up with another idea:
Bind
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/user.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend
with QuicKeys to a hotkey of your choice
or add the following line to your ~/.profile
alias lock='/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/user.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend'
so you can lock your screen from any terminal window with 'lock'.

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