Missing right click under gnome in FC6

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:53:57 +0100 (BST)
Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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.

Desktop background and icons are nautilus.

Alan