On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:53:57 +0100 (BST) Chris Jones <jonesc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to help a friend who is running FC6 and has mysteriously lost > the ability to right click on the background under gnome. The desktop > icons have all vanished (although ~/Desktop still contains them). > > It's not like we are newbies, but so far nothing has worked. We've tried > deleting the the .gnome* .gconf* directories, to force recreation but > that failed. Also we tried with a brand new user, but the same. Seems like > somthing is broken with gnome/metacity under FC6. Desktop background and icons are nautilus. Alan