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Recently in some apps when I select a word to edit it, I sometimes (not always) get this annoying popup:

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Once this popup appears, I cannot edit the text selected, and have to click away from it and start again. Where does this come from, and can I suppress it?

The exact behaviour is: I select text by sweeping with the mouse. Then I move the cursor back into the selected text without touching any mouse button. As soon as the cursor is in the selection and before I can click a button, the popup appears. The same thing happens using my trackpad

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This appears to be coming from the productivity app Things 3. You may have this in your login items (Settings → Users & Groups → User → Login Items). Disable it there to prevent it from automatically starting.

Their support site has a great deal of info on how to use the product, but I was unable to find anything on preferences/settings. There should be something in their settings that enables/disables actions when you select text.

If you have further difficulty, you may wish to contact that developer directly through their website: https://culturedcode.com/things/support/

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  • Doesn‘t this look like the standard context popup one also gets in Finder, with Things being one of the registered services?
    – nohillside
    May 24, 2020 at 15:18
  • Things isn't in my Login Items. This popup appears even when Things isn't running.
    – dsteele
    May 24, 2020 at 15:22
  • To get the standard contextual popup as @nohillside describes, you've got to right-click (or control-click) the text. Are you saying that simply selecting the text does this action? To see if it's a 3rd party app, boot into Safe Mode (Hold Shift while booting). See if the problem persists.
    – Allan
    May 24, 2020 at 15:28
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    Might be a partially sticky control key (or mouse key)triggering the menu.
    – nohillside
    May 24, 2020 at 15:35
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    OK, I booted into Safe mode and it's still happening. The exact behaviour is: I select text by sweeping with the mouse. Then I move the cursor back into the selected text without touching any mouse button. As soon as the cursor is in the selection and before I can click a button, the popup appears. The same thing happens using my trackpad.
    – dsteele
    May 24, 2020 at 16:28

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