Put fast user switching into the menu bar, then enable a keyboard shortcut to focus it. It's not a single keyboard shortcut, but it is a keyboard shortcut.

There is a fairly convenient, fully native way to do it, with only a small amount of setup. Using something like Launchbar or Alfred is a good idea for other reasons anyway ) This Super User answer better explains the process (thanks any case, there's no built in method by default, but as you can see, with some digging and/or third party, you can do it. I haven't tested that myself, but if that script works, assigning it to a keyboard shortcut via Automator/Service ought to be a simple task. But if you check there, there's an alternative that doesn't do that. Note however, that most of the scripts that you will find, will make you write and hardcode the account's password, which is not a good idea. Using pure Scripting like the one used here. I add it here for reference and because someone mentioned it in the comments by Fischer It's been also recommended in the answers you linked. It will also do what you want (shortcut to go to the Login Screen). Simply invoke it, type 'log.' and you already have the option to press enter to go to the login window, can't get much faster than that (you could assign a shortcut to that if you wish).Īlthough I haven't used it in a while, the 'competitor' Alfred + Powerpack had something similar, the command was 'lock' as far as I can remember.īetterTouchTool: recommended by other users (I've seen this app in friend's Macs but never used it myself). You've pointed to different workarounds (I haven't tested those), I'll name a few more: There are, however, various alternatives to achieve that. OS X Lion doesn't have a way to assign a keyboard shortcut to Fast User Switching (which is going to the Login Window without logging off the current user).

Mac lock shortcut key