Re: [orca-list] A Question About the Desktop

[Jose Vilmar Estacio de souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi Steve,

Instead of press shift+f10, try ctrl+f10. At least to me it works even 
when an item in the desktop is selected.

On 10/28/2008 04:45 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> When I do a ctrl-alt-D for the first time, I end up on the desktop (as
> expected) and pressing the kb-enter key, tells me that no items are
> selected; in this situation, I can press shift-f10 and get the global
> desktop menu where I can create launchers and folders and such.  But
> once an item is selected by arrowing around, the minimum is one
> selected item.  At this point, the context menu applies to the
> selected item.  Again, this is as I would expect.  My question is, how
> can you get back to zero items selected?  In windows, you can press
> ctrl-space to unselect the current item; this doesn't work for me
> while in gnome.  Is there another way to do this?
>
> As a side note, On my Debian Lenny box, I cannot find a top level of
> the desktop.  When I press ctrl-alt tab, it just toggles between the
> main desktop and the lower portion.  I can't really tell if there even
> is a top bar on this setup.
>
> Any ideas here?
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