Launch Alfred in a Screen Sharing session

[Gaetano]

Hi,

I hope I am not asking a stupid question but, may any of you suggest me how to activate Alfred on a remote machine which screen is open in a Screen Sharing (VNC) session?

I currently launch it via Spotlight because the hotkey is always captured by the local machine, never by the remote one

 

Thanks

Gaetano

[jdfwarrior]

Hi,

I hope I am not asking a stupid question but, may any of you suggest me how to activate Alfred on a remote machine which screen is open in a Screen Sharing (VNC) session?

I currently launch it via Spotlight because the hotkey is always captured by the local machine, never by the remote one

 

Thanks

Gaetano

 

I've had issues with this using LogMeIn but as long as I have the screen sharing app activated/focused I can press cmd+space and activate Alfred on the remote machine the same way I do locally.

[Gaetano]

Hi David,

this doesn't work with the native Screen Sharing application.

My Alfred shortcut is Ctrl-Space and it is always captured by the local machine.

I may try setting Cmd-Space as shortcut but I feel it doesn't depend on this, am I wrong?

 

Gaetano

[jdfwarrior]

Hi David,

this doesn't work with the native Screen Sharing application.

My Alfred shortcut is Ctrl-Space and it is always captured by the local machine.

I may try setting Cmd-Space as shortcut but I feel it doesn't depend on this, am I wrong?

 

Gaetano

 

The native screen sharing app is what I was referring to that I was testing on. As long as I have the screen sharing window active and focused, even if I have the hotkey for alfred set the same as the local machine, it triggers on the remote. 

[Gaetano]

Hi again,

it seems the problem is related to the shortcut itself: now I changed from Ctrl-Space to Cmd-Space and it works fine in Screen Sharing as well. Again, reverting back to Ctrl-Space, the invocation is only local.

I tried also from another Mac and shows the same behaviour, there is something wrong with the sequence Ctrl-Space.

I made one additional test and noticed that Opt-Space doesn't work either

Edited March 24, 2013 by Gaetano

[jdfwarrior]

Hi again,

it seems the problem is related to the shortcut itself: now I changed from Ctrl-Space to Cmd-Space and it works fine in Screen Sharing as well. Again, reverting back to Ctrl-Space, the invocation is only local.

I tried also from another Mac and shows the same behaviour, there is something wrong with the sequence Ctrl-Space.

I made one additional test and noticed that Opt-Space doesn't work either

 

That's kind of odd. I wonder if the those hotkeys are clashing with something else on the remote machine.

[Gaetano]

Well, could be but I don't think so because the hotkeys correctly activate Alfred when I use the "remote" machine as local.

Both Macs are configured with the same hotkeys to activate Alfred.