Ctrl + Space not working for content assist on eclipse

Question

My problem is that the content assist window won\'t pop up after clicking Ctrl + Space. I checked my shortcuts and the content assist is bound to Ctrl + S

Answer 1

This issue happened to me and none of the stack solutions seemed to resolve it. I finally figured that some other windows task was stealing my hotkey press. If nothing else works, I recommend that you downloaded a free software 'Windows Hotkey Explorer' that reported the registered hotkeys.

In my particular situation, I found ctrl+space was seized by 'blackboard collaborate' (a unpalatable java application for webcasts used by some of my courses).

I closed Eclipse killed all java processes (which included blackboard). Restarted eclipse and my autocomplete was back!

(Note: Hotkey Explorer was incredibly buggy and crashed every time I used it. I was able to get the information I needed before it crashed though so it was useful. Another (shareware) application that I didn't use but noticed online is: Hotkey Commander.