Re: Shielding Windows/Observations About Force Quit
Re: Shielding Windows/Observations About Force Quit
- Subject: Re: Shielding Windows/Observations About Force Quit
- From: David Remahl <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 22:59:26 +0200
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> There's already a convenient way to do that - just enable the screen
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> saver option that requires a password upon waking up.
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Yeah, I know about that. I still want to pursue this for three reasons:
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1. I don't like screen savers :-).
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2. I want the the screen lock to be triggered by a Hot Key combination.
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I'm not wild about the whole "hot corner" thing.
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3. I also have some neat extra features that the screen saver doesn't
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offer that I would like to implement.
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I'll just come right out and admit it: I'm trying to do this in order
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to emulate the *one* interface feature of Windoze I like--the
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convenient CTRL-ALT-DELETE screen locking thing. Flame me if you like,
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but damn it, I want my screen locking :-)!
Well, you could create a small background app which uses the HotKey API to
liten for CTRL-ALT-DELETE. Then you execute something like the following
command:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/
ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -module YourModule
That will start the screen saver and load the module you specify. In that
module you may provide whatever extra functionality you want.
/ Sincerely, David Remahl
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