Wox: Can't set hotkey to Win + Space

[appel]

Thanks so much for Wox, it's great to have something that approaches Spotlight on Windows! I wanted to emulate it as close as possible (muscle memory, amiright?), so I tried setting the hotkey to WIN + Space, but unfortunately it seems Wox doesn't play ball. Not sure if it's a bug, or if it's possible, but hoping it is.

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Please specify Wox version

1.3.295

Please describe the steps to reproduce the bug

Try to set hotkey to Win + Space. Wox will put Win + LWin succeed, instead. Wox hotkey subsequently seems to be set to Win, whereas I'm hoping to be able to use Win + Space.

Please provide Windows version

Windows 10 Home x64 - 1607 - 14393.447

Please provide Exception info if you have.

No exception

Please provide logs from %APPDATA%\Wox\Logs if you have.

Nothing related to this bug.

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[bao-qian]

almost impossible since windows 10,
windows 10 won't allow app to overwrite existing shortcut.

[appel]

Well, that's the weird thing. Apparently you _are_ allowed to overwrite the Win shortcut this way, which seems to me to be just about the most important standard Windows hotkey. I'm currently able to alternate between Wox and the Windows start menu by hitting the Win key.

Plus, Esc seems to work. As does Win + Shift + S. So then why not Win + Space?

[bao-qian]

You can use win key for shortcut key, but you can't overwrite/suppress existing shortcut (there are some exceptions though). There are no docs (at least I didnt find it) for this behaviour.

[appel]

Gotcha. I'll just make it work with CTRL + Space. ;) Thanks @happlebao!

[mpb27]

You can use AutoHotKey to send Alt+Space when Win+Space is pressed:

#space::SendInput !{Space}

Reference: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140220-disable-winspace-hotkey/?do=findComment&comment=942026