Re: mouse

[Sophoklis Goumas <olspookishmagus@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 18:09, Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:
> ...
> I am running Sid up to date..and noticed this morning that I have
> lost the ability to right click on the Gnome desktop and get the
> usual menu. There doesn't seem to be anything in the mouse controls
> menu to do with this problem.
> Any ideas ?
>

Move your mouse cursor to a blank spot on your desktop (an area with no icons).
Try either hitting the menu key [1] (a key that has a menu imprint [2] on it)
or Shift-F10.

Does the menu appear?

Sophoklis

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key
[2] http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/content/shortcut-menu-key.gif