Andrew

I don't use parallels, so I'm moving this into help/questions to see if somebody else can shed some light on it

During that time, could you please open Activity Monitor, select 'Alfred 2' and click the 'Sample Process' button. Paste the response in here and that will give me a good indication of where your issue is

No worries at all, I am going to make it much easier in the future to get an overview of hotkeys used

It might be worth temporarily creating a new user account on your Mac, switching to that (as a fresh profile) and trying from there... don't forget to disable Spotlight from using cmd+space first!

I've gone one step further and assigned cmd+space to Alfred v2 and cmd+shift+space to Alfred v1. They show correctly with their respective hotkeys, so Alfred v2 isn't stopping Alfred v1 from showing by having the hotkey set as cmd+space. Architecturally, OS X actually allows multiple things to be assigned to the same hotkey (Alfred naturally prevents this for your sanity), so even if Alfred did try to consume the cmd key, OS X would separately issue out the event to the other app registering the same combo. This is [undesirably] manifested in some cases when people haven't switched off OS X's default keyboard layout switcher with the cmd+space hotkey and have Alfred also set to cmd+space. Both Alfred shows and the keyboard switches layout.

I've set my Alfred default hotkey to cmd+space, and created a workflow which is cmd+shift+space which posts a notification. Both work as expected where cmd+space shows Alfred, and cmd+shift+space shows the notification I've setup in the workflow (without Alfred showing).

Alfred registers hotkeys (by mod / key ids) with OS X and he is called back when these are pressed, so he doesn't intercept or consume any events. I have managed to create a workflow with the two hotkeys you suggest and both are treated independently. Do you have Alfred v1 running, or two instances of v2 running? (check in Activity Monitor). If not, there may be something else installed which is interfering with this.

This is definitely coming to Alfred in the future

The knowledge data actually expires after a month and is automatically tidied, so actioned random UIDs won't bloat things out

Bit too much for me to respond to in a single go, but will address the main thing, the hotkeys. When editing a hotkey, right click and select the trigger mode to fastest. By default, Alfred's hotkey makes sure that the mod keys are released before actioning making them more predictable. Cheers, Andrew

I'm going to move this to closed as these other kind chaps have helped out

Incredible Spotify workflow here: https://github.com/phpfunk/alfred-spotify-controls

This was a bit of a legacy hidden thing left in v1 which hasn't made it to v2 (which was created and rewritten from the ground up). I have a dev ticket to look into alternatives for this during a v2.x release

If I remember correctly, I believe this is a setting in iTerm2 which copies the text when selecting it (without having to use cmd+c), so by you using cmd+c, you are effectively copying by selecting and copying by cmd+c, so this is merging. Either don't use cmd+c after selecting the text in iTerm2 (as it is copied anyway), or disable copy on selecting in iTerm 2

Could you open Terminal.app and paste: mdls /Applications/Calendar.app and paste the results in. This should let me see what's up

Usually when Alfred doesn't show results from some XML, there is a gremlin hidden in the XML which is preventing the parsing from happening. I will add some more debugging options into Alfred for workflows in the future which will help identify what these issues could be

2.0.2 was released yesterday, so that's fine

It's also worth adding that I am going to make it easier to create simple workflows (such as hotkey to app) in a future v2 release. Hopefully make the workflow creation a single step I also have some ideas of how to make keywords and hotkeys which are set, more discoverable!

This is because AppleScript is required to attach files which a Gmail / web browser can't support.

Do you have an error showing in Console.app? It could be an issue with e.g. the PHP install on the mini

There is a good chance that in the future you will be able to choose any font you like, once I work through the export / import UX

Are you using Alfred 2.0.2? And you say the workflows are correctly showing up in Alfred's preferences?

While it may not be a big deal, if Alfred's core app were to use WebKit, you would see his memory usage balloon to similar to what you see Safari using, and this is miles from ideal for an app which doesn't get quit. The Large Type feature is not going to change, but in the future, there may be other ways to output from workflows instead

When editing your hotkey, right click the hotkey field and set the trigger mode to 'Fastest'. By default v2 makes sure the mod keys are released before the hotkey is actioned, which makes certain scenarios more reliable. The flashing edit menu is the same as v1 as Alfred simulates a low level cmd+v in OS X which allows him to be compatible with all apps, not only ones which support AppleScript

Instead of the "Run Script" action, try using the "Terminal Command" action which will open a terminal and run your command