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  Unwanted pop-up menu Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel_cb@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-06 17:19 +0200
    Re: Unwanted pop-up menu Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-05-06 08:46 -0700
    Re: Unwanted pop-up menu Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2015-05-06 08:58 -0700
      Re: Unwanted pop-up menu Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-05-07 09:31 +1200
        Re: Unwanted pop-up menu Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel_cb@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-07 10:21 +0200

#74964 — Unwanted pop-up menu

Recently OS 10.7.5 on my Macbook Air has been increasingly doing 
something that it never did before (or did only very rarely). I notice 
it most when I'm using TexShop, but I think it comes from the OS rather 
than from TexShop, as it also sometimes happens when I'm not in TexShop.

In the past, if I clicked somewhere in a document the pointer would go 
to that point, and if I double-clicked it would select the word I 
clicked on. Increasingly often, however, it behaves as if I had the 
ctrl key down at the time of my action. So, instead of selecting the 
word I clicked on it offers a pop-up menu that I don't usually want. In 
the Finder, for example, clicking on "Macintosh HD" gives a menu that 
starts with Open, Get Info, etc. In TexShop it starts with "Sync", but 
the principle is the same.

This has had one good effect in that I have learned how to make the 
Ctrl key a lot more useful than I ever did before, but I find it 
absolutely maddening to be offered a menu when I haven't asked for one 
(and when it refuses to go away).

I thought there might be a Preference set somewhere in the Systems 
Preferences that causes this behaviour, but I can't find one.

Is there any way to switch it off, so that I only get a menu if the 
ctrl key is down? There is nothing to suggest that the ctrl key is 
sticking, incidentally.


-- 
athel

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#74966

In article <cqupn7FbukpU1@mid.individual.net>, Athel Cornish-Bowden
<athel_cb@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> In the past, if I clicked somewhere in a document the pointer would go 
> to that point, and if I double-clicked it would select the word I 
> clicked on. Increasingly often, however, it behaves as if I had the 
> ctrl key down at the time of my action. So, instead of selecting the 
> word I clicked on it offers a pop-up menu that I don't usually want. In 
> the Finder, for example, clicking on "Macintosh HD" gives a menu that 
> starts with Open, Get Info, etc. In TexShop it starts with "Sync", but 
> the principle is the same.

You are describing the effects of a right click.  It can also be
triggered by a two-fingered tap on the trackpad (and maybe on the Magic
Mouse as well).

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#74967

In article <cqupn7FbukpU1@mid.individual.net>,
 Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel_cb@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Recently OS 10.7.5 on my Macbook Air has been increasingly doing 
> something that it never did before (or did only very rarely). I notice 
> it most when I'm using TexShop, but I think it comes from the OS rather 
> than from TexShop, as it also sometimes happens when I'm not in TexShop.
> 
> In the past, if I clicked somewhere in a document the pointer would go 
> to that point, and if I double-clicked it would select the word I 
> clicked on. Increasingly often, however, it behaves as if I had the 
> ctrl key down at the time of my action. So, instead of selecting the 
> word I clicked on it offers a pop-up menu that I don't usually want. In 
> the Finder, for example, clicking on "Macintosh HD" gives a menu that 
> starts with Open, Get Info, etc. In TexShop it starts with "Sync", but 
> the principle is the same.
> 
> This has had one good effect in that I have learned how to make the 
> Ctrl key a lot more useful than I ever did before, but I find it 
> absolutely maddening to be offered a menu when I haven't asked for one 
> (and when it refuses to go away).
> 
> I thought there might be a Preference set somewhere in the Systems 
> Preferences that causes this behaviour, but I can't find one.
> 
> Is there any way to switch it off, so that I only get a menu if the 
> ctrl key is down? There is nothing to suggest that the ctrl key is 
> sticking, incidentally.

What you're describing sounds to me like you're occasionally 
"fat-fingering" a right click (which is, unless changed, usually a 
ctrl-click) rather than the "normal", AKA "left" click you intend. Try 
paying closer attention to click-placement - No promises, but I'm 
betting you'll either notice that what I describe is really what's 
happening, or that the frequency of unwanted menus popping up goes way 
down, or even stops completely.

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#74979

In article <middlp$7au$1@dont-email.me>, Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>
wrote:
> In article <cqupn7FbukpU1@mid.individual.net>,
>  Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel_cb@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Recently OS 10.7.5 on my Macbook Air has been increasingly doing 
> > something that it never did before (or did only very rarely). I notice 
> > it most when I'm using TexShop, but I think it comes from the OS rather 
> > than from TexShop, as it also sometimes happens when I'm not in TexShop.
> > 
> > In the past, if I clicked somewhere in a document the pointer would go 
> > to that point, and if I double-clicked it would select the word I 
> > clicked on. Increasingly often, however, it behaves as if I had the 
> > ctrl key down at the time of my action. So, instead of selecting the 
> > word I clicked on it offers a pop-up menu that I don't usually want. In 
> > the Finder, for example, clicking on "Macintosh HD" gives a menu that 
> > starts with Open, Get Info, etc. In TexShop it starts with "Sync", but 
> > the principle is the same.
> > 
> > This has had one good effect in that I have learned how to make the 
> > Ctrl key a lot more useful than I ever did before, but I find it 
> > absolutely maddening to be offered a menu when I haven't asked for one 
> > (and when it refuses to go away).
> > 
> > I thought there might be a Preference set somewhere in the Systems 
> > Preferences that causes this behaviour, but I can't find one.
> > 
> > Is there any way to switch it off, so that I only get a menu if the 
> > ctrl key is down? There is nothing to suggest that the ctrl key is 
> > sticking, incidentally.
> 
> What you're describing sounds to me like you're occasionally 
> "fat-fingering" a right click (which is, unless changed, usually a 
> ctrl-click) rather than the "normal", AKA "left" click you intend. Try 
> paying closer attention to click-placement - No promises, but I'm 
> betting you'll either notice that what I describe is really what's 
> happening, or that the frequency of unwanted menus popping up goes way 
> down, or even stops completely.

Yep, it's either:

   - an accidental right-click

   - a dying mouse / trackpad

   - a semi-stuck / broken Control key on the keyboard.

Just turn off the right-click option in the Mouse or Trackpad system
preferences. As long as it's not the stuck / broken Control key, then
Control-clicking will still product the pop-up menus.

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#74992

On 2015-05-06 23:31:28 +0200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> said:

> In article <middlp$7au$1@dont-email.me>, Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>
> wrote:
>> In article <cqupn7FbukpU1@mid.individual.net>,
>> Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel_cb@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Recently OS 10.7.5 on my Macbook Air has been increasingly doing
>>> something that it never did before (or did only very rarely). I notice
>>> it most when I'm using TexShop, but I think it comes from the OS rather
>>> than from TexShop, as it also sometimes happens when I'm not in TexShop.
>>> 
>>> In the past, if I clicked somewhere in a document the pointer would go
>>> to that point, and if I double-clicked it would select the word I
>>> clicked on. Increasingly often, however, it behaves as if I had the
>>> ctrl key down at the time of my action. So, instead of selecting the
>>> word I clicked on it offers a pop-up menu that I don't usually want. In
>>> the Finder, for example, clicking on "Macintosh HD" gives a menu that
>>> starts with Open, Get Info, etc. In TexShop it starts with "Sync", but
>>> the principle is the same.
>>> 
>>> This has had one good effect in that I have learned how to make the
>>> Ctrl key a lot more useful than I ever did before, but I find it
>>> absolutely maddening to be offered a menu when I haven't asked for one
>>> (and when it refuses to go away).
>>> 
>>> I thought there might be a Preference set somewhere in the Systems
>>> Preferences that causes this behaviour, but I can't find one.
>>> 
>>> Is there any way to switch it off, so that I only get a menu if the
>>> ctrl key is down? There is nothing to suggest that the ctrl key is
>>> sticking, incidentally.
>> 
>> What you're describing sounds to me like you're occasionally
>> "fat-fingering" a right click (which is, unless changed, usually a
>> ctrl-click) rather than the "normal", AKA "left" click you intend. Try
>> paying closer attention to click-placement - No promises, but I'm
>> betting you'll either notice that what I describe is really what's
>> happening, or that the frequency of unwanted menus popping up goes way
>> down, or even stops completely.
> 
> Yep, it's either:
> 
>    - an accidental right-click
> 
>    - a dying mouse / trackpad
> 
>    - a semi-stuck / broken Control key on the keyboard.
> 
> Just turn off the right-click option in the Mouse or Trackpad system
> preferences. As long as it's not the stuck / broken Control key, then
> Control-clicking will still product the pop-up menus.


Getting rid of the two-finger click option seems to have cured it -- no 
great loss as I never use the two-finger click anyway. Thanks to all of 
those who answered.


-- 
athel

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