MacOS – How to find conflicting keyboard shortcuts

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I'm on Yosemite 10.10.4, using Safari 8.0.7.

When I press ⌘ + Shift + 7 Safari doesn't show all tabs, as it's supposed to be, but presents me with the crosshair you get when you would otherwise press ⌘ + Shift + 4.

When I press ⌘ + Shift + 4, I also get the crosshair.
Pressing ⌘ + Shift + 7 outside of Safari also gives me the crosshair.

I already checked all shortcuts defined under "System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts" and I also used the apps CheatSheet and KeyCue to display shortcuts, but they only show ⌘ + Shift + 7 for "Show all tabs" in Safari and ⌘ + Shift + 4 for taking selected screenshots.

How can I find out, where the conflicting key bind is coming from?

This behavior started a few days ago, but I can't seem to recall any specific changes or app installations, If there even were any…

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I actually found the culprit...

In order to find the error I tried several other numbers with ⌘ + Shift and found ⌘ + Shift + 6 triggering a screen recording interface I hadn't seen before.

Opening this interfaces options I found it originated from CloudApp and there in CloudApps "Keyboard Shortcuts" I found it (see image).

CloudApp must have integrated the shortcut with it's recent update.

I removed the shortcut and now Safari is working again as it should :)

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Although it isn't exactly what you asked for, one possible solution is to use the built-in ability to rapidly switch Input Sources (aka keyboard layouts). To make this function useable, you'll need to do a little setup.

Open System Preferences: Keyboard and select the Keyboard Pane. Check the option to Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar (1), then click on the Input Sources… button (2).

image of Keyboard preferences pane

The Language and Text preference pane will open to the Input Sources tab. Select the input sources (3) you want to access on a regular basis. Fewer is better, remember you can always return to this tab and change your selections. When you've made your choices click on the Keyboard Shortcuts… button (4).

image of Language & Text pane Input Sources tab

The Keyboard preferences pane will open to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. Select Keyboard and Text Input from the column on the left (5). Then check the options to enable the keyboard shortcuts to navigate between input sources. (6).

image of Keyboard preferences pane Keyboard Shortcuts tab

If you stay with the default shortcuts, they will conflict with the default Spotlight shortcuts. Select Spotlight from the column on the left, and either deactivate or change the keyboard shortcut assigned to the Spotlight functions.

image of Keyboard preferences pane Keyboard Shortcuts tab

Now when you need to type a special character, use the hotkey to select the appropriate Input Source and use Lion's long hold function to bring up the choices for each character.

I am currently using Romanian as my Input Source . I know this because it's displayed in the Keyboard and Character Viewers menu item. A long press on a provides:

image of Special Key selection and Keyboard & Character menubar item and special character choices

Once I've typed the Romanian character, I can use the keyboard shortcut to return to the U.S. input source.

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