Any Apps to quickly lock screen from the top right menu bar?

[ruihere]

HI Guys,

any easy & simple apps to stay on the top right menu bar, so users can quickly lock their screen?

thanks!

[thoule · Accepted solution]

Open Keychain Utility. In Preferences, select Show Keychain Satus in Menu Bar. Then using the lock menu bar item, choose Lock Screen.

An alternative, I built an AppleScript which users put in their dock and I called it Lock Screen.

do shell script "open -a /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app"

[MTFIDjamf]

Here, we set a hot corner to engage the screen saver. Basically a user drags their cursor to the bottom right corner, screen saver comes on, device now locked, etc...

[ruihere]

thanks! I actually use this command to add lock icon in menu bar:

open /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app/Contents/Resources/Keychain.menu

[milesleacy]

I run this via policy at login:

#!/bin/bash

PreferredMenuExtras=(
    "/Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app/Contents/Resources/Keychain.menu"
)

currentUser=$( ls -l /dev/console | awk '{print $3}' )
userHome=$( dscl . read /Users/$currentUser NFSHomeDirectory | awk '{print $NF}' )

MenuExtras=$( defaults read "$userHome/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist" menuExtras | awk -F'"' '{print $2}' )

for menuExtra in "${PreferredMenuExtras[@]}"; do
    menuShortName=$( echo "${menuExtra}" | awk -F'/' '{print $NF}' )
    if [[ $( echo "${MenuExtras}" | grep "${menuExtra}" ) ]]; then
        echo "Menu Extra "${menuShortName}" present"
    else
        echo "Menu Extra "${menuShortName}" not in plist. Opening..."
        open "${menuExtra}"
    fi
done

[dmw3]

We use a key combination as a service to lock the screen, pushed out via policy.

[cindySingh]

thats nice @dmw3 ! But what key combination did you come up with. When i think of that, most of the combinations are already in use. Using 4 key combination is becoming too mch :S

[dmw3]

@cindySingh The keys we use are - Control/Option/Command/Up Arrow - these are not aligned to anything that we have come across. Easy to remember and same position on all Apple keyboards.

[bentoms]

I'be used the built in screen sleep key combo, coupled with "require password to wake from sleep"