bunnypax.blogg.se - Mac lock screen keyboard shortcut

Many people asked, “Is there a keyboard lock shortcut on Mac?”.

Lock the keyboard to clean it without causing interference.

Avoid mis-hitting while watching a movie.

Avoid cats hitting or even sleeping on the keyboard.

Avoid mis-editing by yourself or any others.

Specifically, you come to this post for one of the following considerations: In most cases, users try to lock the MacBook or Mac keyboard to avoid mis-hit when they are away from the device. Why Do You Need to Lock MacBook Keyboard? In this post, you can understand in what cases you need to lock the Mac keyboard and the trackpad as well as different ways to lock the keyboard on Mac. This entry was posted in digital, english, macosx, security and tagged keyboard, osx, shorcut. A website listing this and other shortcuts can be found here.In Mac OS X terminology this shortcut puts the display immediately to sleep.With macOS 10.13 there is now a dedicated screen lock feature which can be invoked with this new shortcut: If you have any hints where to get a complete list, please let me know! There are probably many other shortcuts in Mac OS I don’t know. You have to enable »Require Password immediately after sleep or screen saver begins« in the System Preferences -> Security to make this truly lock your screen. On Macs without an Eject key you can use the power button in the shortcut instead. Recently however, somebody said that there is such a shortcut and that it exists since Mac OS 8.

I tried AppleScript, I tried Automator, I even convinced a friend that it would be necessary to write a small app for this. My current workaround was to open Keychain.app, enable the menu bar icon in the preferences and click each time on the menu bar item -> lock screen.

I’ve seen this on Linux window managers and something like this probably exists on every major operating system. For years I’ve been searching for a keyboard shortcut that would instantly lock my screen / desktop.