Alfred 4 losing first keystroke after using Hotkey

[alfreder2]

Hello, has anyone else had the issue with Alfred 4 of typing "too fast" that their first keystroke is lost after using the Hotkey?

It has been happening to me a lot. I hit my Hotkey CMD+Space, and start typing immediately after, and the first keystroke is dropped and I only see the 2nd, 3rd keystroke, e.g., CMD+Space, mai -> yields ai in the Alfred bar and of course now showing the wrong results instead of the Mail app.

I've used Alfred 2 and 3, and this inconvenience is making me consider switching back to Alfred 3 since it happens so often. Is there any setting I can change to make the delay between "Hotkey" and "accepting input" smaller?

Thanks!

 

[deanishe]

5 hours ago, alfreder2 said:

Is there any setting I can change to make the delay between "Hotkey" and "accepting input" smaller?

 

AFAIK, no. There is no delay I'm aware of. It sounds like you're simply starting to type before Alfred's window is active and accepting input.

 

This would generally be a symptom of something slowing down your system.

[Andrew]

@alfreder2 This is usually down to a hotkey conflict, take a look at the usual culprits for cmd+space here:

 

https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/cmd-space/

 

Ensure all 3 points on this page have cmd+space disabled.

[alfreder2]

Thanks for the responses.

 

From https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/cmd-space/, I already had Spotlight, Language Switching, and Siri turned off, but following the article's advice - now I've enabled, changed the keyboard shortcut to something other than CMD+Space, and disabled again.