Comments on: How to Lock Your Desktop in Mac OS X

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:42:32 +0000

Mehh…. the closest to windows ctrl-alt-del when you are coming from windows is CTRL-SHIFT-EJECT : works as a charm.

By: Michael Aye

Michael Aye — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:54:09 +0000

Simple: That way will ALWAYS activate the password, whenever the screensaver activates. And I don’t want that in a meeting, where I will talk or not use the computer for a while but then use it to find some material.

By: PAN

PAN — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:48:28 +0000

I’m using a app from the apple website, works pretty well.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/lockdesktop.html

By: Lock your Mac Desktop with the Locker Widget - OS X Daily

Lock your Mac Desktop with the Locker Widget - OS X Daily — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:58:41 +0000

[...] access. The uses for this are many, but I am still surprised Apple does not provide a simple way to lock your Mac outside of either a screensaver or fast user logout with Shift-Command-Option-Q. Anyway, check out [...]

By: Åsmund

Åsmund — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:41:48 +0000

Logging out is not the same as locking. Seriously, what?

The original tip is as helpful as saying “to save power, turn off the computer.”

By: Shayne

Shayne — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:43:11 +0000

google locktight for a keycombo pref pane solution

By: Wes

Wes — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:05:52 +0000

With the others on hot corners in the screensaver. Keep in mind the easiest corner to hit with a mouse is bottom-left if you’re right handed. You may want to avoid the easy ones, the hardest to hit for right-handed is bottom right, try it. Reverse the two for left-handed mouse users.

By: Wes

Wes — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:05:43 +0000

By: BeSweeet

BeSweeet — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:32:15 +0000

I enabled the password thing in System Preferences/Security, yet that didn’t work when I came out of the screen saver.

Doing the whole Keychain thing didn’t work either.

The only thing that worked is the Apple Script download as stated in the original post .

By: developing purposes

developing purposes — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:44:09 +0000

++ inaminit ; fast user switching is my saviour

By: Dusty

Dusty — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:49:43 +0000

I don’t know why anything more than hot corners is needed…. What could be easier or quicker than moving your mouse to the corner of the screen. I have been doing this for 5 years without any problems.

By: Rob James Chaning Record

Rob James Chaning Record — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:30:41 +0000

I’m looking for a way to cover over or lock a desktop space in Leopard Spaces. Examples of use: keep someone out of your work. Stop productivity-eating visits to social applications.

By: Alan Hecht

Alan Hecht — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:44:08 +0000

I’ve seen and tried the solutions listed here. In this case a simple one-trick pony worked best for me: try LockTight (free). LockTight give a system preferences pane where you can set a hotkey for locking the desktop. Yes, you can do similar with Sizzling, QuickSilver, etc, but it’s nice to have a dedicated icon for this in prefs so I don’t have to track down what tool I used to set it.

Here’s a link:
http://www.freemacware.com/locktight

By: kadi

kadi — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:47:26 +0000

For a keyboard shortcut solution for Terminal.app see:

http://codesnippets.joyent.com/tag/lock

By: T

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:37:30 +0000

I was looking for a script like this!