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Use screensaver to lock your Mac
Authored by: sjonke on Apr 15, '02 10:17:57AM

The keychain would be less useful if it didn't unlock at login IMHO. I use the screensaver to lock my Mac when I'm away - turn on the require password option in the screensaver and set a corner to activate the screensaver. Now when you are going to leave your mac just move the mouse into that corner and viola.



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Use screensaver to lock your Mac
Authored by: mnewman on Apr 15, '02 06:17:33PM

I have tried this several times on my Spring 2001 iBook. Problem is, it takes forever to get the machine back once the screensaver is activated. Sometimes several minutes before the password dialog box appears and this just using the "basic" screensaver.

On my OS/9 machine waking up from Sleeper's screensaver is almost instantaneous as is waking up from the screensaver on the NT machines at work.

Any ideas how to speed up recovery from the OS/X screensaver?



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Use screensaver to lock your Mac
Authored by: acct_removed on Apr 15, '02 06:39:34PM
That's not normal. Recovery from screensaver is immediate on my iBook (Late 2001, 600 MHz, DVD/CD-RW, 384 MB). -- Joris Artels II - Artels.org

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Use screensaver to lock your Mac
Authored by: baba on Apr 15, '02 07:41:39PM

I have a vague memory of problems with awakenings from sleep with my iBook, but I haven't seen
it since I patched my system to 10.1 .



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Use screensaver to lock your Mac
Authored by: leenoble_uk on Apr 16, '02 03:35:53AM

It might be your network. You said you have problems on one machine, not another. The other difference may be that one is networked, the other isn't. I have noticed that sometimes it can take 2 minutes for OSX to give up looking for a lost network drive. This comes across as a total system lock up while it searches.
Do you have any appletalk drives mounted? If so see what happens to your wake-up scenario if you eject the disk from your desktop first.



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Use screensaver to lock your Mac
Authored by: sjonke on Apr 16, '02 09:52:03AM

I had this same problem on my 366Mhz ibook (clamshell). Is Spring 2001 a new-style or older style iBook? I have not seen this to such an extent on my new PowerBook. I would say never, but there was one time when I did seem to get a delay, but only for 7 or 8 seconds. It hasn't happened since. The problem with my ibook seemed to improve a lot with newer versions of OS X, but as I recall I would still see a delay some times. I'm presuming it's a bug in OS X. Update to the latest version of OS X if you haven't done so already and that might help.

Of course the PowerBook has its own problem: lousy airport range, but that's another story....



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Use screensaver to lock your Mac
Authored by: baba on Apr 15, '02 07:47:11PM

If someone has physical access to your machine, there are far more serious exploits than keychain acess -- specifically, root access. Implement your screensaver lock and worry your head no more unless your are prepared to physically secure your machine.



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