Will slock work on Mac OS X?

no. os x uses a different windowing system.

yanokwa

Posted 2010-10-09T20:36:44.037

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1Yup - for OS X, leverage a password-protected screen saver, or the screen locking feature of Apple Remote Desktop. Even if you don't own ARD, it could probably be hacked by an enterprising command-line user. – NReilingh – 2010-10-09T22:21:36.967

I'll second a passworded screensaver. Just set one of your screen corners to activate the screensaver, and then you have on-demand locking. – Darth Android – 2010-10-09T22:29:55.057

I know. But I prefer the added security of slock seeing as how there is no indication that you have to enter a password. – Wuffers – 2010-10-10T00:46:30.910

1What's the added security? People who know your password probably also know about that fancy screen locking utility you're using. – Daniel Beck – 2010-10-10T12:57:00.483

But people that don't know my password won't know that there is something running to enter the password into so they can't brute-force hack into it. – Wuffers – 2010-10-15T03:00:51.580

Will slock work on Mac OS X?

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