Lock Mac screen

Si. · 25 Aug 2011 at 11:35

On my Windows machines I can lock the screen with a keyboard shortcut but I can't find the equivalent on the Mac. Does anyone know if there is such a shortcut?

Thanks

jonislost · 25 Aug 2011 at 11:36

hmmm from memory alt + shift + esc, I may be wrong as I don't have a mac anymore but it's something like that!

Edit: Ctrl+Shift+Eject!

shine · 25 Aug 2011 at 11:38

Shift-Command-Option-Q and you can set a keyboard shortcut to make it a bit more friendly:

http://www.macworld.com/article/49080/2006/01/lockscreen.html

Olly · 25 Aug 2011 at 15:35

what I do, is set the screensaver to be a hotspot in the bottom left, then when I need to lock, I just move the mouse down to it and the screensaver kicks in.

I also set the password to be required immediately after it enters screen saver mode

theheyes · 25 Aug 2011 at 21:14

Olly said:
what I do, is set the screensaver to be a hotspot in the bottom left, then when I need to lock, I just move the mouse down to it and the screensaver kicks in.

I also set the password to be required immediately after in enters screen saver mode

This - had this setup for years and I forget it's not standard on the rare occasion I hop on other Macs.