Gnome 2.10 mouse desktop right click problem

[David Philip Barr]

Fabrizio Listello writes: 

> I'm using openbox 3.2-r2 on Gentoo and the gnome-panel-control is there. As 
> you can see from my previous mail, the command works when run from a 
> terminal.... 
> 
> ....fascinating... 
> 
> 
> On 6/8/05, Holly Bostick <motub at planet.nl> wrote:
>> 
>> Fabrizio Listello schreef:
>> > ... already disabled...
>> >
>> >
>> > On 6/8/05, *Guy Banay* <lists.h0lyd4wg at gmail.com
>> > <mailto:lists.h0lyd4wg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > It's possible that Nautilus tries to manage your desktop, and
>> > therefore intercepts "Right Click" events on it and shows its own
>> > menu. You can tell Nautilus not to manage the desktop by running:
>> >
>> > gconftool-2 --type bool --set
>> > /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false
>> >
>> > (this only needs to be done once.)
>> >
>> >
>> > 
>> 
>> In that case, are you sure that the command to get the GNOME desktop
>> menu is still called 
>> 
>> gnome-panel-control --main-menu 
>> 
>> ? 
>> 
>> Maybe it changed, which would also invalidate your keybinding. 
>> 
>> No, I just looked it up, and that's the right name, but neither 
>> 
>> gnome-panel-control --main-menu 
>> 
>> nor 
>> 
>> gnome-panel-control --run-dialog 
>> 
>> appear to actually work when typed into a terminal or into gmrun. 
>> 
>> So the commands themselves may be what's broken. 
>> 
>> Maybe check GNOME Bugzilla. 
>> 
>> Hope this helps,
>> Holly 
>> 
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wow i am in a weird place, anyway you can change your menu binding to pop on 
button 2 or what have you check the rc.xml for details. 

warm regards 

david