Re: mouse

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

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On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:39:37 -0400
Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:

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> On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:26:06 +0300
> Sophoklis Goumas <olspookishmagus@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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?
> 
>   Nope. The system is ignoring right (or for that matter any) clicks
> on the desktop. Right clicking works in other places, such as
> Nautilus.


  Whoops. I had forgotten I had trned off Nautilus control of the
desktop...you not only lose your icons, you lose the right click
menu, which makes sense for the Creating a launcher item...but less
sense for other items.
Anyway Gnome 3.0 is coming :) 

Sorry for the noise.
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- -- Frank --
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