Can't replicate Hotkey of Alfred v1

[Jonathan]

My hotkey in Alfred v1 was cmd+space and I imported my Alfred v1 settings and even uninstalled Alfred v1 using an app uninstaller and now the Alfred v2 settings won't allow me to set cmd+space for Alfred's hotkeys.

[Jonathan]

There was a reply posted here by another user, received an email-but it isn't showing up here. This is my response to their reply.

 

I changed Spotlight back to cmd+space and then tried it and that pulled up the right hotkey and then I changed spotlight back to it's customized hotkey and disabled it and Alfred v2 still won't let me set cmd+space, I even tried stopping Alfred and starting it up again. I haven't tried a restart, which I will try now just to reduce the chance of a misbehaving process.

Edited March 22, 2013 by Jonathan

[Jonathan]

I restarted and it still won't let me select command + space. Pressing the command does nothing.

[Vero]

My hotkey in Alfred v1 was cmd+space and I imported my Alfred v1 settings and even uninstalled Alfred v1 using an app uninstaller and now the Alfred v2 settings won't allow me to set cmd+space for Alfred's hotkeys.

 

Hi Jonathan, when Alfred can't use Cmd + Space, it's because it's currently in use by another app or possibly a workflow. Have a look at this knowledge base as it covers another OS X feature (other than Spotlight) that may try to reserve that combo:

http://support.alfredapp.com/kb:cmd-space

 

If this doesn't resolve it, have a look at other keyboard-controlled apps on your Mac that may have reserved the Cmd + Space combination. 

 

Let me know how you get on

[Jonathan]

That did the trick! Weird, never had the issue with the keyboard input sources before, but after ticking and unticking that keyboard shortcut it works.

 

Thank you so much! My search of the knowledgebase somehow didn't pull up an article on this. Feels so good to have my workflow back, command + option felt so weird.

Edited March 22, 2013 by Jonathan