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This gives you a bunch of useful applications in a sub-folder of yourÂ Applications folder:Īnd the one we’re interested in is Lock Screen.

#IALERTU MACBOOK PRO MAC OS#

To implement a full Windows-L styleÂ solution we needÂ Dockables to provide us with an application that locks the Mac OS session, andÂ Quicksilver to launch that application.įirst, download and install Dockables from. What’s my beef with this solution? The problem is that it’s still rather slow and fiddly - and it’s something I do regularly, so I want to just press and go, just as I did with Windows. (You can also achieve a similar result by ticking Show Status in Menu Bar in Keychain‘s preferences if you prefer.) When you want to lock the session, just click on your user name: and select Login Window… and you’re done. Which will then place your user name in the menu bar at the top of the screen. The trick is to enable fast user switching in System Preferences->Accounts->Login Options:

#IALERTU MACBOOK PRO PASSWORD#

Here’s another way of locking the machine, and this one doesn’t require that you tick Require password to wake up this computer from sleep or screen saver. So, on to solution two… Partial solution number two: select a pull-down from the menu bar What I want is the Mac to remain unlocked until I explicitly lock it. I end up typing my password far too often - every time I’ve left the machine alone long enough for the screen saver to start. However, there is a problem with this method - at least for me - as I don’t want the system to prompt for a password on wakeup. Now, before you walk away from your Mac, just drop the cursor into the bottom-left corner of the screen. You can set that in System Preferences->Security:Īnd that’s it. Of course, this doesn’t help unless your system is configured to require a password when woken from the screen saver. Now, when you place the cursor in that corner (I chose the bottom-left), the screen saver will start.

To do this, first go to System Preferences->Desktop & Screen Saver and click on Hot Corners… Then select Start Screen Saver for one of the corners: Partial solution number one: use a hot cornerĪ hot corner allows you to drop into the screen saver by moving the cursor to a chosen corner of the screen. I’ll cover these methods first in case they work for you, and then I’ll cover a solution that really is as quick and easy to use as the Windows’ lock screen key chord.

Firstly, there are a couple of solutions that are accepted as standardÂ ways of doing this - but unfortunatelyÂ both have problems.

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