Right clicking does not work in desktop

Question

When I right-click on my Lucid desktop, the context menu does not appear. I mean the menu with options to create a launcher, change desktop background etc. How can I get it to work?

Answer 1

Install gtweakui

Then goto System>>Preferences>>gTweakUI-Nautilus.

Under the Desktop,check Use Nautilus to draw desktop.

Alternate Way:

• Press Alt+F2 and type gconf-editor and click run.
• Navigate to apps/nautilus/preferences on the right side you will see show_desktop be sure you have check mark there.

• You can execute the following command in terminal instead,
  gconftool-2 --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop --type bool 1

• This will enable right click in your Desktop.