Right mouse button behaviour in desktop menus

[Tomáš Smetana]

On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 08:59:28 +0200
Tomáš Smetana <tomas at smetana.name> wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I have no idea where to ask this question... The desktop menu behaviour has
> changed recently (by my measures, not sure when exactly) and it drives me
> crazy. I'm used to launch an application by pressing the right mouse button
> on the desktop then navigating to the desired launcher and releasing the
> button, no left mouse click. This used to start the application, but now it
> brings me the launcher editor.
> 
> Is there some configuration option that would bring the old behaviour back?
> It's even inconsistent with the rest of the applications where the "right
> mouse drag" in context menu produces equivalent of "right click, move, left
> click".
> 
> I'd appreciate any help.
> 
> Thanks and regards,

I didn't do enough Googling apparently, it's been filed and fixed upstream
already: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11031

The solution is also mentioned in the referenced bug:
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /desktop-icons/right-click-edits-menu -n -t bool -s false

Regards,
-- 
Tomáš Smetana