"No combo captured" was both slow and wrong: the user HAD pressed a combo.
We actually receive the Ctrl/Shift/Alt keydowns — only the final key of a
combo owned by another app is swallowed by Windows. So "modifiers held, then
all released, no key ever arrived" pinpoints the situation exactly.
Reported on keyup, instantly, naming what was held: "No key registered after
Ctrl+Shift. If you did press one, another app already owns that combo — pick
a different one." The wording also holds if the user just tapped a modifier
and let go.
The 10 s timer stays as the fallback for a capture armed and abandoned with
no key at all (it would otherwise swallow every keystroke until Esc), with a
message that no longer contradicts the user.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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