Can't Use Ctrl Key Launch Alfred

[SanityFox]

I use CTRL+Space to open Alfred since... forever. I am running the developer Big Sur Beta on a separate machine and tried to setup my usual hotkey. It won't accept any combination hotkeys using CTRL. 

[Vero]

@SanityFox When using a macOS beta, please make sure that you check the other threads in the bugs forum to see if the issue was already covered.

 

In this case, another user has already raised this and established that it's due to the hotkey combo being in use by macOS:

 

Cheers,
Vero

[SanityFox]

For anyone else who finds this, there was an answer buried in another forum post about Big Sur bugs. Here's the workaround.

 

"If you go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts, in the list on the left there should be "Input Sources". The shortcut you need to untick is in there.

 

If the "Input Sources" isn't shown on the left, then go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Input Sources (tab at the top) and add one, any will do. This will make the shortcut appear in the list now."

Thanks to @fearoffish for this answer.