Lock Me Now v1.1.1

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  TigerCat

  07/05/2014 at 12:26 | #

  I really love this app, thanx! I wish you good work! :-)

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  Philipp

  01/31/2015 at 15:58 | #

  Hi, I tried to send this as a feature request, but always got an error after trying to send it, so now I try it here as a comment ;-)

  I used Lock Me Now for a while now so that I could assign easily a keyboard shortcut to locking the screen with the fast user switch lock screen.

  However I use Chrome Remote Desktop now from time to time and noticed, that this way I couldn’t type anything on the lock screen, when I access it remotely. Probably the problem ist, that the user swicth login screen runs under a different user and the remote server that runs under me as a normal user can’t “see” it.

  However I can type on the normal lock screen, but this I always tried to avoid, since it is somehow always linked to a timeout. You could lock the screen via Control+Shift+Eject, but the problem here is that it is always required to have the option activated that you have to enter a password after the screensaver is activated. Since I use a long and complex password (also use filevault) this is annoying when I use a short timeout and it gets insecure when I make this longer and really leave my computer a little longer. So this way I either way have to make compromises and I am not in control to just lock the screen immediately when I just want it.

  The best solution I found so far is locking the screen via the keychain app, where you can do this over a drop down menu shortcut from the menu bar. It really locks the screen also when the option under system settings to require a password after a specific time when the screensaver starts is deactivated. Now I only wish I could do that specific command the keychain app does over a keyboard shortcut. Do you think this could be integrated into Lock Me Now?

  The way to lock the screen via keychain app is shown here:

  http://helpdesk.princeton.edu/kb/display.plx?ID=9959

  I didn’t find a way to do that over terminal command yet, but I found a discussion in a developer forum, where they exchange some code, that maybe does the trick. I never used Xcode and never wrote a piece of code, but maybe you could have a look at this?

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1976520/lock-screen-by-api-in-mac-os-x

  Would be cool, if the way the keychain locks the screen could be integrated, since this is totally independent from the setting where you require a password after the sreensaver starts, and it brings up the normal lock screen instead of the user switch one. This way I could finally lock my Mac with a keyboard shortcut just when I want it to be :-)

  Thanks and greetings!

  Philipp

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    Korich

    02/01/2015 at 11:56 | #

    hi Philipp,

    Thank you for feedback.

    You can choice a Just Lock type, it’s look like keychain lock.
    Also – Auto Controll ScreenSaver prefs allow you manually controll enable/disable password.

    I’ll try check Chrome Remote Desktop to see how it work.

    Now I develop new version and want add new lock type.

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  Philipp

  02/01/2015 at 19:01 | #

  Hi, and thanks for writing back!

  Unfortunately the “Just Lock” type does not exactly the same as the keychain app. The “Just Lock” type does more what Control+Shift+Eject and sends the monitor to sleep and the screen is only locked, when under security a password is required when you wake up the screen.

  I noticed the setting in Lock Me Now to “Auto Controll ScreenSaver prefs”, however when checked, it seems to just activate the setting under security to require a password after waking up, and this is actually, and this is exactly what I try to avoid.

  The difference is, when I lock the screen via the keychain app with the drop down menu from the menu bar, it sends the monitor to sleep and a password is required, even when the setting to require one under Security in the Control Panel is NOT activated.

  This is great, because this way I can make sure, that I get only asked for my password when I lock the screen this way, but never after the screen saver starts or the screen turns of because of my energy saving settings. Now I only wish, I could lock the screen this way with a keyboard shortcut ;-)

  I hope I could describe the difference well enough and again, would be great, if what the keychain is doing could be added to your app :-)

  Philipp

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