I'm attempting to disable my spotlight hotkey so that I can make my Alfred hotkey CMD+Space. If I disable "Spotlight menu keyboard shortcut" through system preferences, it seems to stay disabled until I restart. After restart, the spotlight hotkey is enabled again. How do I permanently disable the spotlight key?
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I just tried disabling the shortcut and restarting, and it stayed disabled.
You could try deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist
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Or if nothing else works, you could use KeyRemap4MacBook to map command-space to some other key combination:
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::SPACE, VK_COMMAND | ModifierFlag::NONE, KeyCode::F19</autogen>
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Deleting
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist
and then setting the key again did the trick for me. Thanks! Jan 5, 2016 at 20:14