This involves disabling the System Integrity Protection briefly for the purpose of writing to an otherwise 'locked' (during normal boot) directory. I have been in the mac field for several years now and have found the following command has not let me down so far. The shortcut window remains empty until I close it or hit another shortcut.Īt my wits end here! Has anyone solved this before? One last piece of odd behavior: I can change the shortcut from cmd+space to cmd+option+space (and everything works), but I cannot change it back to cmd+space without hitting 'restore defaults'. I assume this would fix permissions issues if there were any. To reiterate, this was working fine until yesterday. I can't say with 100% certainty that I have covered everything but I have combed through my app shortcuts and closed out of anything that might be the problem.

Closing applications with potentially conflicting shortcuts.

This enables the shortcut for a couple seconds immediately after startup but then the problem resumes. Remove the ist and restart ( rm ~/Library/Preferences/).This temporarily enables the shortcut but the problem surfaces after either closing the laptop's lid or changing the application window. Reset the spotlight index ( sudo mdutil -E / or killall Dock).Spotlight works with essentially any other shortcut, but I am used to cmd-space. Restored the defaults on all keyboard shortcuts.Below are the common solutions that have not worked for me: I have done a pretty thorough search for solutions here are some pages I have read: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6). I did not knowingly update my software beforehand, I do not have any conflicts in the keyboard shortcuts (no yellow triangle), and I only have one input source. I commonly use the cmd-space shortcut to bring up the spotlight, but as of yesterday it no longer works.

Spotlight search shortcut mac