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From: Steve Hodgson on 22 Apr 2008 15:51
I don't know if this will be much use to a lot of people but I found a
nice applescript to lock the desktop, in my case to be invoked via
Launchbar.

<http://chriscook.info/?p=8>

I wanted something that could be run from the keyboard and didn't take
up menu bar space - so the Leopard keychain option was not available.
Unlike most utilities I found this does invoke a screensaver lock. What
I was really after was something similar to way it is possible to
quickly lock a Windows PC from the keyboard.

Digging in to the file it just runs the following command

/System/Library/CoreServices/"Menu
Extras"/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend

but it's handy to be able to access this quickly.
--
Cheers,

Steve

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From: Jon B on 22 Apr 2008 16:07
Steve Hodgson <hamrun(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know if this will be much use to a lot of people but I found a
> nice applescript to lock the desktop, in my case to be invoked via
> Launchbar.
>
> <http://chriscook.info/?p=8>
>
> I wanted something that could be run from the keyboard and didn't take
> up menu bar space - so the Leopard keychain option was not available.
> Unlike most utilities I found this does invoke a screensaver lock. What
> I was really after was something similar to way it is possible to
> quickly lock a Windows PC from the keyboard.
>
I just set the bottom left hot corner to activate the screen saver and
have the option set to always require password from sleep & screensaver
;)
--
Jon B
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From: Steve Hodgson on 22 Apr 2008 16:10
On 2008-04-22 21:07:24 +0100, black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com (Jon B) said:

> Steve Hodgson <hamrun(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't know if this will be much use to a lot of people but I found a
>> nice applescript to lock the desktop, in my case to be invoked via
>> Launchbar.
>>
>> <http://chriscook.info/?p=8>
>>
>> I wanted something that could be run from the keyboard and didn't take
>> up menu bar space - so the Leopard keychain option was not available.
>> Unlike most utilities I found this does invoke a screensaver lock. What
>> I was really after was something similar to way it is possible to
>> quickly lock a Windows PC from the keyboard.
>>
> I just set the bottom left hot corner to activate the screen saver and
> have the option set to always require password from sleep & screensaver
> ;)

I wanted to separate the two so that I have a regular screensaver but
an option to quickly lock the machine when required.
--
Cheers,

Steve

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Email steve 'at' shodgson 'dot' org 'dot' uk

From: adm on 22 Apr 2008 17:06
On 2008-04-22 21:10:56 +0100, Steve Hodgson <hamrun(a)gmail.com> said:

> On 2008-04-22 21:07:24 +0100, black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com (Jon B) said:
>
>> Steve Hodgson <hamrun(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know if this will be much use to a lot of people but I found a
>>> nice applescript to lock the desktop, in my case to be invoked via
>>> Launchbar.
>>>
>>> <http://chriscook.info/?p=8>
>>>
>>> I wanted something that could be run from the keyboard and didn't take
>>> up menu bar space - so the Leopard keychain option was not available.
>>> Unlike most utilities I found this does invoke a screensaver lock. What
>>> I was really after was something similar to way it is possible to
>>> quickly lock a Windows PC from the keyboard.
>>>
>> I just set the bottom left hot corner to activate the screen saver and
>> have the option set to always require password from sleep & screensaver
>> ;)
>
> I wanted to separate the two so that I have a regular screensaver but
> an option to quickly lock the machine when required.

Anyone know of a way to lock a dock so that my kids can't keep screwing
it up in their account? I hate having to keep dragging rubbish out of
it, or repalcing stuff that they've managed to remove. Yes, some of
them are too young to understand how a computer should be used, but it
is what it is....

Locking the finder layout on their account would be useful too.....



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