"Selection Hotkey" - conflict with Keyboard Maestro?

[Kupe]

On my iMac the "Selection Hotkey" only works if I close Keyboard Maestro. I have tried a range of hotkeys so it seems unlikely there is a Hotkey conflict.

 

Any suggestions re diagnosing or fixing this issue? Thanks, ...

[deanishe]

Hi @Kupe, welcome to the forum.

 

Have you checked your Keyboard Maestro settings? Especially anything related to the clipboard.

 

From your description, it sounds like KM is preventing Alfred from working somehow.

[Kupe]

Yes looked at KM settings and tried a few things but no breakthrough ,  

[deanishe]

You could grab ShortcutDetective from this page (it's free).

 

Make sure KM and Alfred are both running, start ShortcutDetective, then use Alfred's selection hotkey. ShortcutDetective should be able to tell you which application received the keypress.

[Kupe]

Thank you deanishe, ... your comments encouraged me to have another look at ShortcutDetective and the idea about a possible clipboard issue triggered my thinking process to resolve.

 

I had previously tried ShortcutDetective without success.

 

I just tried again, but not selecting a file, and it told me KM was using ⌘C. I was momentarily perplexed because this is not my "Selection HotKey". I did however find I had ⌘C in KM as a trigger on a macro I have never used. This is of course a stupid trigger to use! 😔 Strangely enough it never disrupted my copy activities.

 

I killed the ⌘C KM trigger. "Selection HotKey" now works. I assume the issue is that behind the "Selection HotKey" is a copy and paste routine.

 

As always with troubleshooting the answer is usually very simple, ... once identified. 🤔

 

 

 

 

[deanishe]

Glad you got it working 👍