[Macworld]

Post your comments for Padlock 1.0.1 here

[talmy]

I have my screen lock on sleep and the power switch set to sleep the computer -- one button press to lock and no extra software.

[RussEgan]

BetterTouchTool can also set up the same keyboard shortcut, if you already have that installed.

[PrachiGauriar]

Ctrl-shift-eject on a MacBook?

[vcolombo]

Ctrl-shift-eject does not put your Mac to sleep immediately, it only sleeps the display. I use this key combo regularly and it works just fine. Simply set your security preferences to require a password immediately after sleep or screen saver begins, then just lock your computer by pressing ctrl-shift-eject.

[medelegantyd6v]

System Preferences -> Security ->General Tab -> Enable "require password"

Now Cmd-Option-Eject starts sleeps the Mac and password required to wake.

[AldoraWorld]

I've been using a service I created in Automator to do this, and prefer this approach because it takes my computer to the login screen instead of just the screensaver.

The action my service runs ins a shell command:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend

[Dan Frakes]

RussEgan, on 23 September 2011 - 06:26 AM, said:

BetterTouchTool can also set up the same keyboard shortcut, if you already have that installed.

Nice. It didn't have that option when I covered it—thanks for the tip!

AldoraWorld, on 23 September 2011 - 08:04 AM, said:

I've been using a service I created in Automator to do this, and prefer this approach because it takes my computer to the login screen instead of just the screensaver.
The action my service runs ins a shell command:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend

That's a good tip, too, thanks!

[Dan Frakes]

talmy, on 23 September 2011 - 06:12 AM, said:

I have my screen lock on sleep and the power switch set to sleep the computer -- one button press to lock and no extra software.

On laptops, you can also press power immediately followed by S (updated the article). But as noted in the article, this actually puts your Mac to sleep: "it takes time to wake it up again, and you may have processes running that you don’t want to stop."

medelegantyd6v, on 23 September 2011 - 06:48 AM, said:

System Preferences -> Security ->General Tab -> Enable "require password"
Now Cmd-Option-Eject starts sleeps the Mac and password required to wake.

Right (though I forgot to include that shortcut; added, thank you). But, as above, this puts your Mac to sleep, rather than just locking the screen.

PrachiGauriar, on 23 September 2011 - 06:32 AM, said:

Ctrl-shift-eject on a MacBook?

vcolombo, on 23 September 2011 - 06:40 AM, said:

Ctrl-shift-eject does not put your Mac to sleep immediately, it only sleeps the display.

On my old MacBook, it did indeed put the computer to sleep. On my MacBook Air, it actually does nothing. In either case, it's not an option for everyone.

[thomqi]

PrachiGauriar, on 23 September 2011 - 06:32 AM, said:

Ctrl-shift-eject on a MacBook?

Thanks! That works great! Wake up is instant, so I suspect it's just a screen sleep, which is perfect because there are already so may ways to put the computer to sleep. This is a nice alternative to the hot corner, so I might finally deactivate that since I hit the corners too easily and then and frantically try to reverse whatever it activated.

Ctrl-shift-eject ... Ctrl-shift-eject ...

Okay, I think I'll remember it now.

Thanks again, that's great!

[JohnnyO]

PrachiGauriar, on 23 September 2011 - 06:32 AM, said:

Ctrl-shift-eject on a MacBook?

Excellent! That works well in on my 2009 MacBook Pro running Lion.

[miniStack]

Dan, you say "I wish Padlock let you hide its menu-bar icon", and it does, it's right there in the Preferences, just uncheck "Show Padlock icon in the menu bar"

[jmco]

[richsb]

For you Alfred users, simply invoke Alfred, press command-, to get to preferencees, then go to 'Features'. You'll see 'System Commands' on the bottom of the sidebar. Click on it and the first screen should be 'System Commands'. Check the ones you want enabled (I have 'ss' for the screensaver and 'lock' for lock).

Now, just invoke Alfred, type whichever one in, and there you go! No need to remember command shift eject or escape, or was that with alt? And this will help declutter your menubar. I believe a similar functionality may be found in Butler. And if you've done what somebody already mentioned with regards to requiring a password to wake from screensaver, then either action will suffice.