I have two identical Mac Pro’s at work and I installed Locktight on both. On one works great no problems. On the other the video display started locking up at random intervals, but most often when screen saver is activated (either by Locktight or inactivity). When the display is not frozen, weird horizontal lines appear randomly. in my display.

I realize that this could be from a number of causes, but it started immediately after installing Locktight. I’ve removed everything I can find related to Locktight and restarted the system, yet the problem persists. Before I rebuild this system or start swapping out video cards, I wanted to see if anyone else has experienced something similar and if there are any other steps l could take to troubleshoot/fix.

Thanks in advance for any help, and thanks for producing LockTight…I love being able to lock my screen with a keystroke combination.

I did try this, but it did not work.

What I discovered is that you can replace it by navigating to:

~/Library/PreferencePanes/LockTight then right click or CTRL click, select ’show package contents’ then go to Contents/Resources and look for ‘SleepTightAgent’.

To share this I documented it on my blog http://www.hutsby.net/search/label/Keyboard%20shortcut%20to%20lock%20the%20screen

I know the problem you’re having, and I think it’s best fixed by reinstalling the software.

Right-click (control-click) on the Preference Pane in the System Preferences application, and choose “Remove…”.

You can then reboot, and reinstall, and the programme should be back to the way you want it to be.

I accidently deleted the startup item so that locktight would be avaialble autmatically. Now the only way I can use locktight is by going into system prefs, selecting locktight and then it works OK.

Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks!

Steve

I don’t think that the way Apple implemented the entire security hierarchy of Mac OS X would allow you to do that. I’d like that option as well, but until then, we’ve only got options like this.

My problem is that I don’t want to use a password from screensaver; just from sleep and to have a lock hot-key. Do you know of any way to make that work?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
-waldo

Dragging the mouse cursor to a screen corner to lock the screen works well for me. This can be set by clicking the Hot Corners button under System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver.