Lock screen by API in macOS

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Is there an API, that can lock the screen as the menu bar entry you can add from Keychain preferences?

This Keychain function is (was) locking the screen but not bringing the system to sleep.

macos cocoa
8 Answers

To lock the screen, call:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend

Admin1

I don't see anything documented as such, but the menu uses the ScreenSaver framework, which defines this:

@interface ScreenSaverDefaults : NSUserDefaults 
{
@private
    NSMutableDictionary     *_defaults;
    NSMutableDictionary     *_registeredDefaults;
    NSString                *_userName;
    NSString                *_domainName;
    BOOL                    _dirty;
    BOOL                    _screenLockPrefChanged;
}

+ (id) defaultsForModuleWithName:(NSString *)inModuleName;

@end
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