I think I was unclear as well. On my system, I can select icons on the desktop by hovering over them _before_ clicking on the desktop. But some window still has focus at that point, and not the desktop, so with the icon selected, F2 doesn't rename, but get's sent to whatever application has focus.
-- "Focus Follows Mouse" doesn't set focus to Desktop https://launchpad.net/bugs/45837 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
