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edwardloveall
Occasional Contributor
4 years ago

Can't use Command-Alt-\ to invoke 1Password in browser or Quick Access

Hello! I am trying to use a shortcut I used for 1password 7 with 1password 8 and I'm unable to. The shortcut is Command-Option-\ (backslash) AKA Command-Alt-\ AKA \. Here's a video of this showing the keys I'm pressing and how the browser and 1Password app are responding, respectively.

Things I've tried:

I've looked in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts and while I do have custom shortcuts there, none of them are mapped to \ (I did find one in mapped to that in Accessibility shortcuts but I removed it and the problem is the same).

I also Downloaded ShortcutDetective from here. It told me that AXVisualSupportAgent was the process that was capturing that shortcut. From what I can find, it's related to accessibility, but I can't figure out how to get more specific than that.


1Password Version: 8.7.0
Extension Version: 2.3.3
OS Version: 12.3.1

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  • 1P_PeterG's avatar
    1P_PeterG
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    Hi edwardloveall, great to hear that things are now working as expected. If you do notice the issue return (and especially if you notice what might have triggered it) do let us know - we want to make sure your experience is as reliable as possible. 👍

  • edwardloveall's avatar
    edwardloveall
    Occasional Contributor

    For whatever reason, I tried this just now and got it to work. I have no idea why it wasn't before. Maybe I had some app open that was blocking it. Thanks for the help 🙂

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    edwardloveall
    Occasional Contributor

    Here's what I can find so far that seems related on first glance:

    • My clipboard history uses \ (without ).
    • I'm not using the 1Password integration
    • In the snippets section (I don't use any snippets), I see the message 1Password seems to be preventing text expansion by locking secure entry

  • edwardloveall's avatar
    edwardloveall
    Occasional Contributor

    I think I found where that preference has migrated to:

    But as you can see, it's not set. I'll continue to scour the Alfred prefs.

  • edwardloveall's avatar
    edwardloveall
    Occasional Contributor

    Interesting! I am an Alfred user! Looking around briefly I can't find that exact preference (there's no Actions tab) but I'll keep looking around. Also, yes I am using a US keyboard mapping.

  • edwardloveall

    One thing that comes to mind based on another users report is screen zooming or smoothing. Can you check those? I'm not sure if that is the one you removed.