[shifuimam]

I tried this hack about a million different times, and it absolutely won't work. I even can see my set keyboard shortcut in the Keychain toolbar item menu, and I still have use the menu - doing ^F8 doesn't seem to do anything on its own, although it's supposed to bring focus to the toolbar.
I'm running a 300MHz G3 iBook, so I'd rather not have to install extra software - I need all the processing speed and RAM I can get for other things!
Thanks in advance, and sorry for bumping the thread!

[chriscook]

I've created a small application that does this for you. It's pretty simple - just a set of strings executed by Automator.
Visit my blog to downloade the app:
Lock Desktop - Mac OS X Application
-Chris /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[aquraishi]

I know you wrote this quite a while ago and my experience is now with Leopard since I've upgraded my MacBook Pro ot it but here's what I found: ctrl-F8 didn't work because of the macbook keyboard which is
shortened from the full keyboard and requires a fn-ctrl-F8 +
fn-shift-ctrl-F8 - too many keys for my liking so I figure the fn-ctrl-F8 combo + using the cursor keys is good enough for me.



Hope that helps.

[arkman]

Why do I receive the message “unauthorized” when I click on “more”? I seem unable to read any Macworld posts. I am registered.

[arkman]

Can someone please explain to me why, when I select “more”, I am transported to a page that says “Unauthorized”? I am logged in so what gives?

[griffman]

It would be oh-so-helpful if you could perhaps share with us exactly where you're clicking on More...

-rob.

[macduke]

well i wrote me a little widget which have a single button to start the screensaver...
-macduke

[arkman]

Here is the sentence that starts the thread:
Learn a number of different ways to easily and quickly lock your screen. [more]



If I click on “more” it takes me to a page that says “Unauthorized”. I have tried this on various MacWorld hints and get the same results. It must be the new site and how I am registered? How can I correct this since I would love to be able to read the hints?

[benjiman]

I think, this is the most comfortable way:
Install "SizzlingKeys"( www.yellowmug.com/sk4it/ - 1.5 MB) - its freeware! In the first place, it is intended to be used for iTunes (the functions for iTunes are great! - you can set keyboard shortcuts for all important functions). But you will also find an extra to set a shortcut to LOCK YOUR SCREEN! I use Option(Alt)Command(Apple)L!

[maclover009]

One other way is if you enable "Fast User Switching" in the Accounts Pref Pane and add it to the menu bar. Then hold command (apple) and drag it to the very left. Then just do ctrlf8 (that opens the left most menu bar item) then shiftctrlk then enter. first it opens the item shiftctrl+k highlights login window and enter activates. Hope this helps.

[Typhoon14]

Personal, I just use Spark and create a keyboard shortcut to activate the login window (Command-Option-Control-L) quick and easy, and spark is good for lots of things.

[machwh]

I've documented a tidy way of locking your session with a singe key-chord here:
http://www.markwhead...creen-mac-os-x/
Cheers,
Mark

[yonibarkan]

Hi - This is a great suggestion, but I can't get it to work. How did you set it up? I can't access the "Login Window" from quicksilver...
Thanks!
Yoni

Nobody, on 24 January 2006 - 09:24 PM, said:

The best way I have found is to use Quicksilver in conjunction with Fast-User-Switching (so the login menu appears but you are not logged out, which for various reasons is more secure than using the screen saver lock)
Quicksilver comes with some handy scripts to do this, so now I just type Opt-Space F Enter. Easy /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[abbaby]

I just updated to Snow Leopard and now the Ctrl-F8 doesn't open the keychain access drop-down menu. It just shifts the focus to the menu bar and highlights the keychain access menu. But having to use an extra arrow-key key-stroke to show the drop-down followed by Fn+Ctrl+Shift+F8 is really clumsy. Anybody able to get around this?

Thanks,
@bb@by.