There is no right click on gnome menu items. Is this an option that can be toggled on/off?
You need to install the gnome-tweaks package, then āKeyboard & Mouseā, āMouse Click Emulationā ā Area.
Francesco
gnome-tweaks already installed. Set mouse area to on.
Right Click on an item in the application menu still behaves as a left click.
Same problem here. Rocky 9.3
Right click works in the Settings test page but not in menus to move applications
This is still an issue with both the touchpad and a USB mouse.
Right click works as expected in the settings test page but in the applications menu it is the same as left click.
How can I add an application to Favourites (or any other menu) without using the mouse?
eg. edit a file somewhere
Finally found how to do this with dconf.
dconf read /org/gnome/shell/favorite-apps
dconf write /org/gnome/shell/favorite-apps ā[ānew listā]ā
An even easier method is to search in dconf-editor for āshellā then scroll down to favorite-apps and edit.
(I still cannot use right-click in the menus. Acts as if left-click.)
Do you mean the Applications menu in Gnome Classic? I donāt think there are any menus in default Gnome.
Yes.
Right click works as expected everywhere except Gnome menus on my Rocky box.
It even works on other boxes via VNC.
So when you right-click within the applications menu, what is supposed to happen? Can you check the Gnome version on the other boxes?
On every other box (and in every answer on the web), right clicking an entry gives the Add to Favourites option. On this one box the result is exactly the same as left click. Gnome version is 40.4.0
On the other boxes, where it works properly, what version of Gnome are they running?
I just found this topic via search. I have Rocky Linux 9.5 in a VirtualBox VM. Iāve had this for quite awhile (starting with Rocking 8.4 if Iām remembering correctly.) In the top menu bar, I have Applications, Places, and then some quick launch icons for all the launchers in Applications-Favorites. I believe that is being provided by Frippery Panel Favorites. (Sorry if Iām a little vague; I test in Rocky Linux for compatibility, but I primarily use Ubuntu MATE.)
I canāt remember how I got those icons into Favorites, but Iām now trying to add Google Chrome to that set, and canāt do it. Right-click of the mouse is launching instead of popping up a context menu (thatās true for every app in Applications, not just Chrome.) Right-click works properly on desktop icons and also on the title bar of open applications. Looks like the only place right-click does not work is in the top bar.. On the top bar date-time field on the right, and on the 3 icons to the right of that (connections, speaker volume and power.), the right mouse button appears to be doing the same thing the left mouse button is doing. But in an application window, they behave differently from each other, with only the right mouse button providing context menus.
What could be causing this? In Settings - Mouse and Touchpad, I have Primary Button set to Left. When I run Test Your Settings, the right and mouse buttons are being differentiated properly. In VirtualBox, I have the mouse set up as a PS/2 Mouse.
Thanks for any pointers.
I donāt think right click works like that in Rocky 9.5
You can view the array
gsettings get org.gnome.shell favorite-apps
and see how firefox does it
before messing with this array, make sure you back up the values
but that menu is a bit pointless anyway, itās better to use categories, so chrome should be under āinternetā
Thanks, that worked. For anyone else who may find this via search, I discovered (by additional searching) that the graphical tool dconf-editor can be used to modify favorites. By adding google-chrome.desktop to the list of favorite-apps, Chrome now shows up in both the Applications-Favorites menu and also in the Frippery panel.
I still canāt get mouse right-click to consistently show me the context menu, but that is a problem for another day.
You mean within the applications menu? I donāt think itās supposed to work in Rocky 9.5?
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I admitted that I primarily use Ubuntu MATE for everyday work, and mostly use my Rocky VM for compatibility testing. I just fired up the VM, and right-clicking various places, hereās what Iām seeing:
- Desktop icons: right-clicking these seems to work as expected.
- Top panel: right-click seems to do the same thing as left-click most of the time. However, I have the Frippery panel up there, and icons on that donāt respond to right-clicks at all.
- Since you specifically mention the Applications menu, right-clicking on any of those menu items does the same thing as left-click.
- I opened several apps: Firefox, Chrome, Terminal, Software, Files - these are the apps I have on the Frippery panel. They all seem to respond to right-click as I would expect, both on the title bar and in the window area.
So, having now taken the time to intentionally explore (thanks for the prodding, I needed to do this to finally understand how the Rocky desktop works), it now looks like the primary offender is the top panel. Everything else seems to do what it is supposed to do. But that is still a significant detraction, since I donāt use many desktop icons, so most of my launching of apps is through the panel. Right now, the only icons I have on the desktop are Trash, and one app that I installed manually.
Thanks.
Yes, in Rocky 9.5 clean install itās normal.
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