You will now be able to hit CTRL-OPT-L and activate the screen saver in order to lock the screen. Type the keyboard shortcut, such as CTRL-OPT-L. Click in the whitespace to the far right of this entry and a new entry box will appear. Scroll down to the General section and you will see the newly created Start Screensaver service is enabled. Go back to Keyboard Shortcuts in the Keyboard section of System Preferences and look in the Services group. Finally, save the service and give it a name, such as Start Screensaver. Next, drag the Start Screen Saver action from the Utilities action group to the workflow. The default is also for “any application”, make sure to keep this set. Tell the new service that it receives “no input” (rather than the default of “text”). Launch Automator and create a new service. If mousing to part of the screen isn’t your thing, you can use the keyboard to lock the screen, but it takes Automator (or a third-party application, but Automator is the better bet if you’re using OS X 10.6). As referenced below is a nice article on how to do the process. This will allow you to set any keyboard command you would like to lock or start a screen saver on your mac. Use a keyboard shortcut and use Automator to make a screen lock service.
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