On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 18:06, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> On 22-Feb-2003/13:46 -0600, Chad Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I may be showing my ignorance, but when one tells nautilus not to draw the
> >desktop the shortcut menu that appears when you right-click the desktop
> >disappears as well. I thought gnome had a way of displaying a menu as well
> >in 7.3. Does anyone know how to get a shortcut menu without having nautilus
> >display the desktop? (One thought, was this menu a feature of sawmill that
> >metacity does not have?)
> 
> Sawmill has a center-click function, but I don't think the config that
> ships with GNOME includes a right-click menu by default.
> 
> You could always run gmc. It's a lot faster than Nautilus and it provides
> decent desktop and file manager functionality.
> 
> 
> Tony
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> 

The menu you are refering to is provided by nautilus, so telling
nautilus to not draw the desktop will remove this functionality. Your
only other option is to use another file manager ( such as gmc or
FileRunner ), or find some way to set the root window in X.

Cheers,
Ryan



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