Lock app is not working on Yosemite

[cotzo]

The lock app is not working, when executing, a screen flicker occurs but the action is not performed

[siong1987]

@cotzo i am trying to reproduce it on my computer. it seems to work perfectly fine here.

[cotzo]

@siong1987 hello. thank you for your response. now it's showing the screensaver but not locking up the current user. any idea or can I be of any help with further debug info?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/juqdix6k49kwy3y/Untitled.mov?dl=0

[siong1987]

@cotzo it might have something to do with your settings. check this out:

[joeyhoer]

Hooking into the functionality provided by Keychain Access is probably a more user friendly method as it does not require user's to fix their Security & Privacy settings - http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/123738/43737. (I've tested this on Yosemite, and it works beautifully.)

Alternatively, suspending the session (details also in the link above) works well; although it's not really the same as "Lock Screen" and has it's own set of issues. (This is the action performed by Alfred, when the "lock" command is entered.)

[siong1987]

@joeyhoer thanks a lot. that's exactly what i am looking at. will fix it this weekend. :)