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Apple script to lock screen using keychain's menu item
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(* | |
Probe Menu Bar | |
This script uses UI element scripting to return a list of every menuitem | |
of every menu for every application currently running. | |
If "Enable access for assistive devices" is not checked, | |
this script will open the Universal Access System Preference and ask | |
the user to check the checkbox. | |
Copyright © 2007 Apple Inc. | |
You may incorporate this Apple sample code into your program(s) without | |
restriction. This Apple sample code has been provided "AS IS" and the | |
responsibility for its operation is yours. You are not permitted to | |
redistribute this Apple sample code as "Apple sample code" after having | |
made changes. If you're going to redistribute the code, we require | |
that you make it clear that the code was descended from Apple sample | |
code, but that you've made changes. | |
*) | |
tell application "System Events" | |
get properties | |
get every process | |
if UI elements enabled then | |
tell process "SystemUIServer" | |
repeat with i from 1 to number of menu bar items of menu bar 1 | |
if description of menu bar item i of menu bar 1 is "Keychain menu extra" then | |
tell menu bar item i of menu bar 1 | |
click | |
if name of menu item 1 of front menu is "Lock Screen" then | |
click menu item "Lock Screen" of front menu | |
exit repeat | |
end if | |
end tell | |
end if | |
end repeat | |
end tell | |
else | |
tell application "System Preferences" | |
activate | |
set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.universalaccess" | |
display dialog "UI element scripting is not enabled. Check \"Enable access for assistive devices\"" | |
end tell | |
end if | |
end tell |
The strings "Keychain menu extra" and "Lock Screen" are localized strings. So you have to edit them to fit to the language your system is running.
In German these strings are "Schlüsselbund-Menüerweiterung" and "Bildschirm schützen".
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