If you're like me, you hate people surreptitiously looking over your shoulder while you're MacTelling away at the Cubicle Farm.

That's why I bought a 3M Privacy Filter (a must-have in my book) and set my Screen Saver to prompt for a password.

I also set my Active Screen Corner so I can activate it by sliding my mouse to the top right corner of my screen.

This works for the most part. However, I always find myself accidentally tripping my screen saver. I know, I know! You can now use the Shift, Control, Option and Command key to do Active Screen Corner chording, but that requires both hands. Also, the chording mechanism has some quirks itself - the saver won't trip unless you press the associated key BEFORE you go to the corner.

What I want is an ultra-quick way to invoke the password-protected screen saver at a moment's notice, preferably with a single mouse-click - a Boss Click as I'd like to call it. (remember the fake spreadsheet with Leisure Suit Larry?)

So here's a quick workaround.

As it happens, the Screen Saver Engine is just another application that can be located at /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versions/A/Resources.

Just drag it to the Dock and click on it whenever you want to invoke your screen saver.

Alternatively, you can just run the script below in Terminal (Never mind, the HTML Code label. That is a VBulletin quirk to get it to display the brackets)

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