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How to "Require password… after sleep" but NOT after waking up from screen saver?

Like the title says: is there a way to make the distinction between waking up from sleep or waking up from screensaver?

System Preferences/Security & Privacy/General says:

 “Require password… after sleep or screen saver begins.”


I use a hot corner for activating my screen saver and one for putting my computer to sleep. But apparently waking them up does exactly the same for both: both offer me to type in a password.


If setting these preferences separately were possible, how and where would you need set them?

In Terminal perhaps?

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.13

Posted on Feb 18, 2020 4:29 PM

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Posted on Feb 18, 2020 6:45 PM

The only thing I can think of is that having the mac go to sleep means you will be a way from the mac longer than

if you just use the screen saver. In System Preferences> Security & Privacy> General you can select a length of time

before a Password is required.


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How to "Require password… after sleep" but NOT after waking up from screen saver?

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