{"id":474,"date":"2016-09-30T14:21:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T13:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flat-planet.net\/?p=474"},"modified":"2016-09-30T14:21:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T13:21:48","slug":"proper-lock-screen-behaviour-on-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"Proper lock screen behaviour on OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working with a MacBook for some time now, but had a constant irritation that there didn&#8217;t seem to be a way to lock the screen out of the box. Many point to &#8216;Sleep&#8217; as an option, but that takes down all my SSH sessions. Likewise having a passworded screen saver is not great simply because for it to be effective e.g. when I step away, then the timer needs to be short, which is very annoying when you are working on something without moving the keyboard or mouse.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully I now found the solution, which is surprisingly well hidden. In the Keychain Access preferences, we have an interesting box we can tick:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flat-planet.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-30-at-13.36.55.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flat-planet.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-30-at-13.36.55.png\" alt=\"Keychain Access Preferences\" width=\"876\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a>Tick the box &#8216;Show keychain status in the menu bar&#8217;. This now gives us a handy little menu with the option &#8216;Lock screen&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flat-planet.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-30-at-13.37.10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flat-planet.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-30-at-13.37.10.png\" alt=\"OS X - Lock Screen\" width=\"255\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>So there you have it, the laptop is locked but the network sessions stay up. Windows + L would be even better, but you can&#8217;t have everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working with a MacBook for some time now, but had a constant irritation that there didn&#8217;t seem to be a way to lock the screen out of the box. Many point to &#8216;Sleep&#8217; as an option, but that takes down all my SSH sessions. Likewise having a passworded screen saver is not great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[291,292,293,294,295,296,32],"series":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tips","tag-os-x","tag-apple","tag-macbook","tag-lock-screen","tag-keychain","tag-simple-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}