Hotkey trigger doesn't output macOS selection

[everyonesdesign 1]

Both Alfred 3, Alfred 4 on macOS Big Sur 11.0.1

 

1. Create a hotkey trigger
2. Use selection in macOS as argument

 

Expected:

The selection is passed to the next actions

 

Actual:

No value passed

 

Simple reproduction case: Dropbox link

[Andrew 739]

@everyonesdesign it's likely Alfred has lost the permissions he needs to simulate keyboard events. Try removing and re-adding permissions listed here:

 

https://www.alfredapp.com/help/getting-started/permissions/

 

Specifically, the Accessibility ones.

 

Cheers,

Andrew

[everyonesdesign 1]

Thank you, @Andrew, for the response. Unfortunately, it didn't do it for me. I disabled and re-enabled the permissions, however I still have the issue.

 

Do you have any other ideas? If you need me to run/try something to debug the issue, please, let me know.

[Andrew 739]

@everyonesdesign did you quit Alfred, and fully remove him from the Accessibility prefs rather than just un-tick and re-tick?

[everyonesdesign 1]

Yes. I re-tried it again, and now I also re-started macOS in between the steps (after disabling all the Accessibility preferences, and then after re-enabling again). I still cannot get selection text in a workflow it seems.

[Andrew 739]

@everyonesdesign I wonder if something on your main profile is blocking Alfred.

 

Could you please temporarily create a new user account, switch to that user, activate Alfred and see if it works there?

[everyonesdesign 1]

OK, it seems that the problem is in my setup. I killed all the other apps and it started working. I think some other app started acting up a bit differently after upgrade to Big Sur.

 

Sorry to bother you, I guess the issue can be closed. 

 

I'll look into that and maybe will post what app caused that, so that other people bumping into that will see it.

[everyonesdesign 1]

BTW, @Andrew, thank you very much for the Alfred tool. I literally cannot imagine my workflow without it now.

[everyonesdesign 1]

The app causing that was TickTick, because my shortcut (Cmd+Shift+O) seemed to coincide with its default global one (and by strange coincidence, the other shortcut I used for testing, Cmd+Option+Cmd+Z, coincided as well).

 

Thank you again for quick response and have a nice day! 

Edited November 21 by everyonesdesign