lock screen shortcut with windows keyboard

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lock screen shortcut with windows keyboard

I'm running Yosemite on a late 2009 iMac and recently switched to a wireless (HP) keyboard and mouse. I am using a package called "Karabiner" to enable brightness, volume, and media control shortcuts with the F1-F12 keys. Now I am looking for a way to make a shortcut to lock my screen like I did with ctrl+shift+eject on the old keyboard. When I am in system preferences -> keyboard -> shortcuts -> app shortcuts, I hit the "+" button, set Application to "All Applications", set Menu Title to "Lock Screen", and when I type in the Keyboard Shortcut box nothing appears. The only keys that show up here are those from the numpad. I really need a way do lock the screen quickly from the keyboard.

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Dec 4, 2014 8:43 AM

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Answer 1

JonBoy64

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Aug 30, 2017 11:32 AM in response to matthewlswanson

I just bought a microsoft keyboard for another device but wanted to see how it works with my Mac (it works great). No, the microsoft keyboard doesn't seem to have an eject key...or at least not an obvious one. I guess you could write a macro. I guess you could map a key. But why? I just click on the apple symbol in the upper left hand corner of my Mac desktop and then click Sleep. I do love the delete key on this microsoft keyboard. 🙂

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Answer 2

Apr 27, 2015 10:29 AM in response to matthewlswanson

Just figured this out. In Karabiner there are a bunch of options to map a key to the "power" key. The one I used that is working is under "For PC Users" --> "Change PC PrintScreen Key, ScollLock Key, and Pause/BreakKey" --> then check "Pause/Break Key to Power". Then you can use the Ctrl + Shift + Pause/Break to lock your screen. Now you are talking about the eject key which is for older macs but I see that there is an option to map Pause/Break to the Eject key as well. Either way Ctrl + Shift + Pause/Break should do it.

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Answer 3

Feb 14, 2017 12:20 PM in response to ProfKillbot

Karabiner currently is not working for MacOS Sierra. How else can we do this?

https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/

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Answer 4

Vard9

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Aug 22, 2017 2:23 PM in response to agentkirkwood

Have you tried Karabiner Elements for Sierra?

http://pragmati.st/2017/02/18/setting-up-microsoft-surface-ergonomic-keyboard-on -mac-sierra/

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