Keyboard Keeps Illuminating by itself

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yea the keychain lock, and the user switch lock work a little different. The keychain lock does not allow you to do anything without putting the passsword in. The switching user lock, well you can log into another user.

I like my way better, its serves my purpose much better There is only one user on this pup!

there is an easy third option here too. Use expose to wire a hot-corner to "start screensaver" and just enable the screensaver to require login password. Does the same thing as a lock, only you just move the mouse to that corner, instead of key-combos

Yeah, I know which way you're talking about, I'm just not a big fan of the move a mouse to a corner thing - my friend loves it, I hate it *shrugs*. On the new MBP's they made F3 the key that separates all your windows - VERY handy, but I could never get used to the corners.

I came from a keyboard only background, so to speak. I use the mouse, but if I can do it with the keyboard, I will most likely do it with that.

I used "focus follows mouse" and the "wire frame and click" to place windows in Windowmaker. Scroll the titlebar, and it rolls up the window. I LOVE that environment. On top of FreeBSD, and I was lovin it! I know some thof those are either native (FFM in terminal) or third party (windowshade for Tiger by panic I think), but having them native, and the wire frame setup was the s***!

Funny thing is, I was turned on to OS X by a hardcore BSD guy (BSD, not FreeBSD though he used FreeBSD as a workstation). My old company got a bunch of Xserves when they came out, and Apple threw in 3 dual proc. G4's. The admin's got them, then I ended up with one when I became an admin. By that time I had a powerbook. My justification was " its a pretty version of FreeBSD" which essentially it is. That and I wanted a portable *nix environment that had a battery life of more than an hour.

Ok that was a bit OT, but hey, its not often I find someone who came from a similar environment.

Oh ya, another nice keyboard shortcut I use constantly: opt +cmd+eject. Sleep immediately.

That was basically my justification as well - I just wish they would give you an option of using their swing library (java) or SUN's swing Library - as the one Sun produced is the industry standard, it's a pain to have everything working on a mac, then go to hand it in or transfer it to another computer for testing and it fails miserably - though that's what I got it for, portable workstation, good hardware, good software, and most importantly, a UNIX based environment. I tried putting FreeBSD on this and it blew up in my face, so, I don't have much experience with FreeBSD, or any BSD. I've been using Ubuntu for a desktop because Gentoo's not being a good boy. Though I use regular OS X for portable stuff.