Lock Screen and Sleep Display with Quicksilver

Looking for a quick way to lock your screen and put the display to sleep on Mac OS X using Quicksilver?

  1. Download Sleep Display.
  2. Extract the zip file and move SleepDisplay to your Applications folder.
  3. Run the SleepDisplay application at least once.
  4. Fire up Script Editor and enter the following code: 
    do shell script "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend"
launch application "SleepDisplay"
  5. Save this script to a location cataloged by Quicksilver.
  6. Create a HotKey Trigger in Quicksilver to run the script. I use command-control-shift-S as my keystroke combination.

I’m running Mac OS 10.5.1 on an iMac and this works great!


Comments

  1. 1. Youqa
    12/18/2007 at 7:16pm

    can it run on Linux such as SUSE linux?

  2. 2. Nick Momrik
    12/18/2007 at 7:46pm

    No, this is an AppleScript.

  3. 3. kaz
    1/8/2008 at 9:06am

    It crashes my MacBook running 10.5.1. When I try to wake up, I got a login window, I log in, but then nothing. The login window disappears, and the “cosmos” picture of Leopard stays, using the whole screen. No menu bar, no desktop, no desktop picture, no nothing.

    Shortcuts works (I tried option-command-eject and the quicksilver trigger). And my cursor is visible and I can move it. But that’s it. I had to force shutdown…

  4. 4. Nick Momrik
    1/8/2008 at 12:37pm

    Mine seems to have stopped working too. I wonder if a recent update did something.

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