Ubuntu Desktop Icons and Right Click on Desktop Not Working!

October 29th, 2007 Pekk Posted in Ubuntu, Linux |

Last night I installed the new Ubuntu Gutsy and encountered some problems after customizing it.The desktop icons would not show and the right click on desktop did not work… I did some googling and found the following tip:

gconftool-2 –type bool –set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false

This was found on a forum post about gtk2.10 having this issue and nautilus trying to intercept the right click… I tried this but it didn’t work - then i realized i didn’t install gtk+ 2.10 yet and so i change false to true and it worked again.

gconftool-2 –type bool –set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop true

was the answer to my solution. I’ll post more later about my new Ubuntu escapades, but for now I gotta run