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[SOLVED] KDE plasma, Desktop right-click does nothing

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[SOLVED] KDE plasma, Desktop right-click does nothing

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I upgraded, rather than doing a clean install, from buster to bullseye because I didn't want to re-do customizations. But it may well be that one of them is stopping normal function of the desktop.

Everything works okay, except right-click on the desktop. It does not bring up a context menu, so I can't easily change settings.

Anyone have an idea what I may have done and how to fix it? I've looked at ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc but don't see anything obvious (to me).
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Re: Bullseye, KDE plasma, Desktop right-click does nothing

#2 Post by sunrat »

Works here but my Bullseye is a fresh install. Have a look in ~/.xsessionerrors or maybe journalctl. You could create a new user to see if that's affected, it may narrow it down to an issue in user profile rather than system-wide.
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Re: Bullseye, KDE plasma, Desktop right-click does nothing

#3 Post by Hallvor »

A malfunctioning plasmoid took my whole desktop down when I upgraded, so consider yourself lucky. :wink:

As sunrat says, add a new user to isolate the problem.

This will show the latest entries first. Try right clicking the desktop and see if something turns up:

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# journalctl -r
[HowTo] Install and configure Debian bookworm
Debian 12 | KDE Plasma | ThinkPad T440s | 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-4600U CPU @ 2.10GHz | 12 GiB RAM | Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4400 | 1 TB SSD

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Re: Bullseye, KDE plasma, Desktop right-click does nothing

#4 Post by NFT5 »

Click on desktop to give it the focus.
Alt+DS
Mouse Actions
Set what you like.
Apply & Exit

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Re: Bullseye, KDE plasma, Desktop right-click does nothing

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Thanks for the suggestions.

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#journalctl -r
looks like it might have useful info, but I don't know enough to figure it out.

I'll try the new user idea. As you say, that'll narrow it down a bit.

Alt-DS gets a popup for Activities, which I've never used (seems like just an added layer of complication for a non-multitasker?), but I'll read up on it to learn more.

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Re: Bullseye, KDE plasma, Desktop right-click does nothing

#6 Post by quixote »

It's something somewhere in my user's config files.

A new user has all the usual right-click functionality.

So how might I go about fixing my setup? I'd really really really prefer not to have to re-do everything set up since dog's years ago. (I've been using Debian since 2007 or 2009. I did a clean install in 2017 (?). I remember it took days, *weeks*, to get everything set back up. Interferes with my workflow something awful when things aren't where they "belong." It's all muscle memory by now.

Anyway. I hope I can fix it! I need ideas where to start looking though. :?: :?: :?:

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Re: Bullseye, KDE plasma, Desktop right-click does nothing

#7 Post by quixote »

Turns out the answer is simple. Finding it was a bear though. Finally stumbled on it in a reddit thread.

My ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc had somehow lost the following line right at the beginning of the file:

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[ActionPlugins][0]
RightButton;NoModifier=org.kde.contextmenu
After adding that back in and rebooting, the desktop right click works as expected again.

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Re: Bullseye, KDE plasma, Desktop right-click does nothing

#8 Post by sunrat »

quixote wrote:Turns out the answer is simple. Finding it was a bear though. Finally stumbled on it in a reddit thread.

My ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc had somehow lost the following line right at the beginning of the file:

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[ActionPlugins][0]
RightButton;NoModifier=org.kde.contextmenu
After adding that back in and rebooting, the desktop right click works as expected again.
Good find! Please edit the title of your first post to prepend [Solved] so it will help anyone else searching for the same issue.
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