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Salute 2.1

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Keyboard shortcut activates screensaver and locks session. Free

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Salute... Simply press control-command-delete, and then return, and your screen saver is invoked. If you have turned on locking of your screen saver, you won't be allowed back in until you type in your correct password. Salute simply activates the screen saver or login window.

What's New

Version 2.1:

Fast user switch to the Login Window. Instead of activating the screen saver, you can have Salute switch to the Login Window. This doesn't log you out, and doesn't require that you turn on fast user switching. Also, the option to exit to login window during sleep and timeout after 5 minutes.

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

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Negritude commented on 06 Jun 2011

The developer is AWOL and the download link doesn't work. However, you can still find the program here:

http://download.cnet.com/Salute/3000-2072_4-81808.html

[Version 2.1]

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Makai reviewed on 03 Jan 2010

The ability to switch to the user login screen is very welcome. Used to implement this behavior with Winswitch but that has been abandoned long time ago. And no luck when trying to set this up from the Shortcuts definitions in Apple's "Keyboards" pref pane

[Version 2.1]

Anonymous reviewed on 26 Nov 2005

Fantastic. Now I can use all my corners for other things. Thanks!

[Version 1.0]

houchin tipped on 08 Nov 2005

This is great! Thanks for creating it.

One thing that might help, especially for windows users coming to the Mac. On Windows, you trigger the equivalent dialog with the forward delete key (next to "end"), not the backwards delete key. It would be nice if Salute took either combination.

I agree with the other suggestions for having key combos for the other buttons.

[Version 1.0]

Anonymous reviewed on 17 Oct 2005

Cool.

Can you make this put Mac to Sleep?

How about entering a letter to invoke specific command?

cANCEL, tERMINAL, mONITOR, sCREENSAVER, SLEEp, SHUTdOWN, rESTART

Maybe a different app?

Anyway, Thanx

[Version 1.0]

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