Comments on: Locking your session in Mac OS X

By: Is there a keystroke that can lock the Mac OS X screensaver? Drija

Is there a keystroke that can lock the Mac OS X screensaver? Drija — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:13:59 +0000

[...] aside, Mark Wheadon has an extensive article documenting various methods. It turns out Apple really doesn’t want you to use the keyboard [...]

By: Hari

Hari — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:32:58 +0000

@Jim your solution worked the best, no need to have Keychain access icon showing, and I can lock and unlock from VNC. Thank you very much.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:15:51 +0000

The ctrl key has no special meaning in QS (as far as I know). Its meaning only comes into play in the Dockable, which is an AppleScript Application created using AppleScript Editor. All AppleScript Applications behave this way when they are launched with ctrl pressed, and they have for at least a decade (Perhaps as early as System 7, when AS was introduced?). You can try hitting command-E to edit the script (though I bet it was saved as run-only). There are many other ways to accomplish the result without using an AppleScript Application, as described in the comments.

By: arek

arek — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:38:49 +0000

AWESOME!!! AT LEAST – thank you Mark

By: Karel

Karel — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:23:31 +0000

@Simon: That’s brilliant.

By: simon

simon — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:13:35 +0000

Even if you only put your display to sleep (Ctrl+Shift+Eject) and with “password on wake” enabled, you have yourself a locked screen with a shortcut.

By: Casemon

Casemon — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:34:53 +0000

All of this is overkill.

CMD+OPT+EJECT -> puts your system to sleep. Combine with “password on wake” in Prefs->Security and Bob’s your uncle!

By: Jouni

Jouni — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:07:55 +0000

Locking the screen has been there for ages on all the other OS’s… maybe apple will “invent” it when 10.7 is launched? Just like they invented video chat w face time?

By: look

look — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:39:37 +0000

thanks – good job and very useful. it took me 15 minutes.

By: kjb

kjb — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:32:34 +0000

Why is it that every other OS on the planet has a built in way to lock the screen with a keyboard shortcut and not OSX?? This should be built into the freaking OS not steps downloading a bunch of secondary apps. UGH…