i posted this over at the opensuse forum since that is what distro i use but no one has responded, so naturally i thought i'd try here.

openSUSE 11.1 x86_64
KDE 4.3.66 (4.4svn)/KDE4 UNSTABLE Desktop repo
Plain desktop (only 1 desktop)

yes i know its from "UNSTABLE" but for the last several releases from UNSTABLE i have lost the right-click context menu from the desktop and hence i can not change my background or my plasma theme.
i am using the "plain desktop" (without the cashew) containment or whatever it is called if that matters.

i tried deleting all the plasma config files & then customizing plasma again but i wasn't able to determine what is causing this (assuming it is related to plasma, which i think it is).

apparently 4.3.66 does not yet include the implementation mentioned here: Moving things to the right place « Uninstall it!

i'd appreciate any help in getting it back.

If you change to a different containment does it work there?

bcooksley wrote:If you change to a different containment does it work there?

i can't change containments because i have no right-click menu.

I have to right click on a widget to get it up or the cashew

ComaWhite wrote:I have to right click on a widget to get it up or the cashew

the right-click context menu for widgets does not contain the "Desktop Settings" menu entry so that doesn't do me any good. also, i said i am using the "Plain Desktop", which is the normal plasma desktop minus the cashew.

Maybe you have a «mouse actions» bug. Click in the cashew, desktop settings. Go to the mouse actions page and "fix it".

[EDIT]
Cashew -> Desktop settings -> Mouse Plugins -> Contextual Menu [No Button] -> right click.

dpalacio wrote:Maybe you have a «mouse actions» bug. Click in the cashew, desktop settings. Go to the mouse actions page and "fix it".

[EDIT]
Cashew -> Desktop settings -> Mouse Plugins -> Contextual Menu [No Button] -> right click.

apparently people are not reading my posts closely enough. i said twice that i am using the plain desktop; it doesn't have the cashew.

echoes wrote:apparently people are not reading my posts closely enough. i said twice that i am using the plain desktop; it doesn't have the cashew.

Well, try this to get the cashew and try their suggestions:

Start konsole
kquitapp plasma-desktop
Edit ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc
Find the line (should only be one line since you're only using one desktop) plugin=plaindesktop
Change it to plugin=desktop, and save
start plasma again with plasma-desktop &

And see if you can use the cahsew to access the settings you require.

Kryten2X4B wrote:Well, try this to get the cashew and try their suggestions:

Start konsole
kquitapp plasma-desktop
Edit ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc
Find the line (should only be one line since you're only using one desktop) plugin=plaindesktop
Change it to plugin=desktop, and save
start plasma again with plasma-desktop &

And see if you can use the cahsew to access the settings you require.

thanks! that did the trick. i knew there was a way to change it from the config file but i hadn't actually gotten around to checking it.

i checked the new mouse plugins section and the "Contextual Menu" entry was blank! i don't know how it got that way but it disabled the desktop context menu. both the plain desktop & desktop plugins work as they should again.

thanks for the help everyone.

Good that it's solved. Just wanted to tell you that there's a neater way to mark topic as solved now - see this topic for more information.

Hans wrote:Good that it's solved. Just wanted to tell you that there's a neater way to mark topic as solved now - see this topic for more information.

thank you. i thought there was a way but i never found out how.

This just happened to me in Linux Mint 7. All of my panels and the cashew disappeared, and right-clicking on the desktop didn't bring up the context menu.

However, I solved the problem by upgrading some more packages.