The only real solution I've found is what the-sleepy-dog posted, namely to use Keychain Access to make a lock appear on the system menu bar, of which one of the options is 'Lock Screen'. So whenever I use the Ctrl-Shift-Eject to 'lock the screen', it logs me out of the VPN, which I find highly irritating (logging in to a VPN is a time consuming process, given network latencies, and terrible interfaces, particularly coupled with large Enterprise wide VPNs that have a LOT of selections from an unsorted pick list for a Group Policy Selector - don't worry about it if you don't know what I'm talking about, but suffice it to say that logging in the VPN can be a minute+ long affair). If that VPN software isn't amenable to switching users without invalidating the VPN connection (which makes sense from a security standpoint), then, it will log you out of the VPN. The problem arises if you are also using that machine to connect via a VPN to some corporate/enterprise infrastructure. However, on a corporate/enterprise machine, you will have multiple accounts (usually, your account, an 'admin' rights like account, and the 'corporate admin' like account). Normally, this isn't a problem, as it has the same behavior as just locking the computer. If you have multiple accounts on the computer, you will see those appear. To do so, you can press Ctrl + Alt + Delete keys at the same time to open the Options screen, and select the Lock option to lock Windows computer screen. Ctrl-Shift-Eject really brings up the 'login' screen. Ctrl + Alt + Delete Keyboard Shortcut to Lock Computer The first and most common way is to use the Ctrl + Alt + Delete keyboard shortcut to lock Windows computer screen.

Locking your computer is an ancillary benefit to what it's really doing. From there, when you click on your widgets, you can scroll to the bottom of the menu and find ShortFlow or LockFlow - whichever you chose - and add your custom widget.For completeness sake, Ctrl-Shift-Eject does more than just lock your computer. To customize your Home Screen, navigate to Settings, scroll down to Wallpaper, then hit Customize. But I didn’t mind the extra steps on ShortFlow, since I just had to type out “Open App” and “Open App 1,” which are the very creative names of my shortcuts.

On LockFlow, you can import your shortcuts directly, and on ShortFlow, you need to (gasp!) manually type the name of the shortcuts you want to use. Here’s where LockFlow and ShortFlow diverge. Shortcuts can be as simple as just opening an app, or they can get a bit more involved. So simple that it’s a wonder why Apple didn’t just engineer this on its own.įirst, you have to set up your shortcuts in Apple’s Shortcuts app. These apps take a teeny bit of finagling - especially if you are an accidental luddite like me, who did not previously use Shortcuts - but it’s simple enough.

Image Credits: ShortFlow, screenshots by TechCrunch

Macbook shortcut to lock screen