There are a few desktop menus you may use in GNOME. These menus are accessed
by making a right-button mouse click on any clean space on the desktop. This
will bring up a
menu which contains a few items:
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- This launches a new GNOME
Terminal window that will automatically navigate to the ~/.gnome-desktop
directory.
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- This creates a new directory
on your desktop into which you can place files: a convenient way to clean
up your desktop.
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- This allows you to place a new
application launcher on the desktop. When selected, this menu item will
launch an
dialog that
allows you to specify which application and its properties.
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- Some applications may put
items for you in the
menu. For example, the
Gnumeric spreadsheet will put a
menu item in the
menu so
you can start up a new spreadsheet easily.
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- This automatically arranges
your desktop icons.
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- This launches a new GNOME
File Manager window displaying your Home directory.
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- This rescans the
mountable devices on your machine and display an icon for any new device
it might find. It also reloads any desktop items your distribution places
on the desktop by default.
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- This rescans the files in your
~/.gnome-desktop directory. Any new files found will be placed on the
desktop as icons.
