How can I lock my desktop?

[goodtimes5]

Is there anything out there that can lock my desktop at the press of a hot key?

I know about DeskShade, but it doesn't work with Tiger. The password gets saved and reappears automatically.

I know about the password-to-wake, but I want something that can work when the computer is active.

 

[James Philp]

Is there anything out there that can lock my desktop at the press of a hot key?

I know about DeskShade, but it doesn't work with Tiger. The password gets saved and reappears automatically.

I know about the password-to-wake, but I want something that can work when the computer is active.

It's built into Tiger!
Apps>Utilities>Keychain Access
Preferences:
Check "Show Status in Menubar"
Quit.
now in menubar - padlock symbol click on and "lock screen".
See attachments!

 

[szark]

Is there anything out there that can lock my desktop at the press of a hot key?

I don't know any way to set a hot key, but you can set a screen corner to activate the screensaver with the mouse, and lock it that way.


^^ Interesting... didn't know that.

 

[James Philp]

^^ Interesting... didn't know that.

Call yourself a demi-god

 

[goodtimes5]

My oh my. And it looks so intimidating too!

But I can't say the same about the Spectrum screen saver after locking the screen.

 

[James Philp]

My oh my. And it looks so intimidating too!

But I can't say the same about the Spectrum screen saver after locking the screen.

You like? There are SO many bits in Tiger yet to be discovered!
Try my Tiger Top Tip for example!

 

[mcs37]

Is there a way to do this with a keyboard shortcut? I'm quite used to the Windows-L key on windows stations, and I was desperately hoping Tiger would introduce a similar Command-L key to lock the screen immediately. Come on Mac, all other operating systems provide this! And it can't be terribly difficult to implement. The lock button/Lock icon is nice I suppose, but it's not enabled by default apparently and you can't access it with a keyboard shortcut.

wtf, mates?

 

[swheeler]

Is there a way to do this with a keyboard shortcut? I'm quite used to the Windows-L key on windows stations, and I was desperately hoping Tiger would introduce a similar Command-L key to lock the screen immediately. Come on Mac, all other operating systems provide this! And it can't be terribly difficult to implement. The lock button/Lock icon is nice I suppose, but it's not enabled by default apparently and you can't access it with a keyboard shortcut.

wtf, mates?

I'm pretty sure there's a way to assighn a keyboard shortcut to any menu item. Don't remember whether its built in or 3rd party though.

 

[alex_ant]

Is there a way to do this with a keyboard shortcut? I'm quite used to the Windows-L key on windows stations, and I was desperately hoping Tiger would introduce a similar Command-L key to lock the screen immediately. Come on Mac, all other operating systems provide this! And it can't be terribly difficult to implement. The lock button/Lock icon is nice I suppose, but it's not enabled by default apparently and you can't access it with a keyboard shortcut.

wtf, mates?

Stop looking at porn at work. Problem solved

 

[goodtimes5]

Stop looking at porn at work. Problem solved

This coming from the man who entered his location as "inside your mom."

 

[reh]

Is there a way to do this with a keyboard shortcut?

Yes, use the app FUSkey to do it. You set a key combo (whatever you want, I use command-shift-L) to activate the fast user switching login screen. I've got the app on my webspace since it seems to have gone MIA.

http://www.herskal.com/apps/fuskey.zip

 

[Mechcozmo]

Come on Mac, all other operating systems provide this! And it can't be terribly difficult to implement.

Actually, it would be Apple.

Apple is a company that has the products Macintosh OS X, iPod, PowerBook, iBook, etc.

 

[mcs37]

Actually, it would be Apple.

Apple is a company that has the products Macintosh OS X, iPod, PowerBook, iBook, etc.

Actually it would be Mac. See the parallelism between "come on Mac" and "other operating systems"? Saying "Come on Apple, all other operating systems" would be faulty parallelism. Another correct example is "Come on Microsoft, Apple has been doing this for years."

QED, bitch

 

[Flying Llama]

Actually it would be Mac. See the parallelism between "come on Mac" and "other operating systems"? Saying "Come on Apple, all other operating systems" would be faulty parallelism. Another correct example is "Come on Microsoft, Apple has been doing this for years."

QED, bitch

You can't talk to software... you're talking to Apple so that they change it. I agree with Mechcozmo.
Let's not start a flame war on this.

llama