I like the convenance of using Hot Corners to lock my screen. It just works for me. I know way, way too many keyboard shortcuts. Depends on what I am in, but I have been trying to shove Vim and tmux keybindings into by brain for years…and now with switching over to Cursor I have different ones to remember now.
So, don’t get me wrong, I like keybindings just like any other software dev does…but sometimes you just want to lock your screen. There is nothing like dragging your mouse to a corner and it is just done. That is till you do it to yourself 3 times while on a video meeting, that’s when you start thinking to yourself that there has got to be something better.
And that something is adding a modifier key. Brilliant, simple and you can still use hot corners without going nutty. So how do you stop activating Hot Corners accidentally?
Go to System Preferences > Mission Control, then click on Hot Corners.
Select any of the four active corners of your screen, and a drop-down menu appears. (my new option is the upper right corner)
To assign a modifier key, press and hold the key (Shift, Command, Control, or Option, choose one) then pick an action, like Lock
Screen.
You are in control now! Or should I say command, because now just scrolling to the upper right corner won’t trigger that lock screen. You’ll have to add an extra keystroke for that, and that shouldn’t be too much to remember, just one extra key.
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