Missing right click under gnome in FC6

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

I'm trying to help a friend who is running FC6 and has mysteriously lost 
the ability to right click on the background under gnome. The desktop 
icons have all vanished (although ~/Desktop still contains them).

It's not like we are newbies, but so far nothing has worked. We've tried 
deleting the the .gnome* .gconf* directories, to force recreation but 
that failed. Also we tried with a brand new user, but the same. Seems like 
somthing is broken with gnome/metacity under FC6.

Any ideas ?

Chris