From: Ken Jones <jonesj@ziplink.net>
Per the suggestion of Chuck Anderson I logged in under a new account. GNOME desktop worked just as it should. So I removed all of the /home/kjones/.gconf directory and logged in again as myself.
Still it did not work correctly. In particular the right click on empty space did not work.
I did a "diff -r" on the two (now default versions I suppose) .gconf directories. They seemed the same save for unique identifiers. Where do I look to find the differences?
Calls to xmodmap in your .bash*, .xinitrc, or startx setup files? If the buttons don't work in the program, maybe the program is fine, but somebody moved the buttons. This is just a random guess, of course. I have never seen an empty space on any desktop of mine. --Keith