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I want to be able to lock the screen quickly, and and the hot-corner thing is slow and tricky.

Any ideas?

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Using Keychain Access's Lock Screen menubar isn't fast enough for you?

Activate it here:

keychain preference

Then lock.

keychain menubar

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How do you get to that first Preferences window? – Eric Wilson Oct 23 '09 at 16:01
I originally shy'ed away from this, since I wanted a keyboard-only approach, in the hopes that it would be faster than a mouse approach, but given the delay in my automator script actually running, this is a viable alternative. – pkaeding Oct 23 '09 at 20:26
Oh, and the first preferences window is in KeychainAccess.app's Preferences. – pkaeding Oct 23 '09 at 20:28
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What version of OS X are you using? In 10.5, I used LockTight, but it didn't work very well for me in 10.6, so now I am using an automator script.

The automator script works, but there is a delay between when I hit the key-combination, and when it locks up, especially if the currently activated application is busy (and I usually like to start some big task, like a build, right before I walk aay from my desk).

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