Comments on: OSX: Finally, lock your screen http://www.gmtaz.com/blog/osx-finally-lock-your-screen/ Gustavo Tandeciarz's personal blog Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:12:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Gustavo http://www.gmtaz.com/blog/osx-finally-lock-your-screen/comment-page-1/#comment-2385 Gustavo Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:09:29 +0000 http://www.gmtaz.com/?p=105#comment-2385 While I agree that it's easier to use a hot-corner (and thanks for the instructional post!), I personally wouldn't do that. Again, this is IMHO, but I have a hot-corner to turn off my screen and I find myself hitting it by accident sometimes. If I had to type in a password every time that happened, I would be seriously annoyed. Maybe it's just a question of tweaking my mouse acceleration.... but for me, the key combo works really well, especially since I use the keyboard more than I use the mouse. (QuickSilver or AlfredApp really help with this). While I agree that it’s easier to use a hot-corner (and thanks for the instructional post!), I personally wouldn’t do that. Again, this is IMHO, but I have a hot-corner to turn off my screen and I find myself hitting it by accident sometimes. If I had to type in a password every time that happened, I would be seriously annoyed.

Maybe it’s just a question of tweaking my mouse acceleration…. but for me, the key combo works really well, especially since I use the keyboard more than I use the mouse. (QuickSilver or AlfredApp really help with this).

]]> By: FreelancerJ http://www.gmtaz.com/blog/osx-finally-lock-your-screen/comment-page-1/#comment-2383 FreelancerJ Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:28:57 +0000 http://www.gmtaz.com/?p=105#comment-2383 Something I've always had on my Macs, is using a hot corner. In Lion, go System Preferences, Mission Control (I've had it in Snow Leopard and Leopard too, under Exposè instead) and click Hot Corners and set one of them to "Start Screensaver" using the drop-down menus. Next, go to "Security & Privacy" and tick the box that says "Require Password [drop-down box] after sleep or screensaver begins". You can set this to immediate, 5 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes and so on. When set to immediately, you actually get about 1 and a half seconds while the screensaver transitions in to move the mouse again to cancel it without having to enter your password, which is useful if you accidentally hit a corner :) I find it better than a key combo, since I always have a mouse or touchpad nearby that I can just quickly flick into the bottom left corner (nice and out of the way for me, since my dock is on the left of the screen, so my apps don't go to close) as I walk away from my computer :) Just an alternate way of doing it for the users that might be useful :) Something I’ve always had on my Macs, is using a hot corner.
In Lion, go System Preferences, Mission Control (I’ve had it in Snow Leopard and Leopard too, under Exposè instead) and click Hot Corners and set one of them to “Start Screensaver” using the drop-down menus.
Next, go to “Security & Privacy” and tick the box that says “Require Password [drop-down box] after sleep or screensaver begins”. You can set this to immediate, 5 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes and so on.
When set to immediately, you actually get about 1 and a half seconds while the screensaver transitions in to move the mouse again to cancel it without having to enter your password, which is useful if you accidentally hit a corner :)

I find it better than a key combo, since I always have a mouse or touchpad nearby that I can just quickly flick into the bottom left corner (nice and out of the way for me, since my dock is on the left of the screen, so my apps don’t go to close) as I walk away from my computer :)
Just an alternate way of doing it for the users that might be useful :)

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