Raspbian XFCE Desktop Right-click Broken

[jimbo1qaz]

I right clicked the desktop, changed the background. Looks good.
Then I think I switched the tab and checked that thing saying something like "open window manager menu when clock on desktop".
Now when I right click on desktop, I get the menu to:
Open browser and terminal
Change workspace
Change Openbox theme
Shutdown/log off?
And no way to open the desktop appearance/settings menu to change it back.
I think my menu's dead. Which file do I edit to change it back?

[trololo]

Actually, it's LXDE.

[theowiersema]

Got the same problem. :/

[hop]

Look in the preferences menu for OpenBox configuration.

[MikeP666]

Hi

To get back to defaults you can do one of two things:

1) Big bang approach. In a terminal navigate to:
/home/pi/.config/pcmanfm/LXDE
delete pcmanfm.conf
Exit LXDE and restart
You will now be back to defaults

2) In a terminal navigate to:
/home/pi/.config/pcmanfm/LXDE
edit pcmanfm.conf
locate:

........
[desktop]

............
show_wm_menu=1

..............
Change value from 1 to 0 and save
Resart LXDE

Have fune

mikep

[jkibbe]

It took me a while to figure this one out (and lots of failed attempts). I figured I'd post my solution here to help others that can seem to undo what they have done!

Anyway, launch a terminal and enter pcmanfm --desktop-pref. When the desktop preferences window pops up, click on the "Advanced" tab and deselect "Show menus provided by window managers when desktop is clicked." That's it!

When we changed the setting, we essentially told the Openbox Window Manager to take over the right-click duties. This switches it back to the PCManFM File Manager that we had by default.

Good luck!

[jameli]

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 pcmanfm --desktop-pref

Awesome!!!
I had been looking for this command... restored my raspi several times because of this finally here is the solution.
Thanks bro, it helped a lot!

[rinusvw]

@jkibbe: You found the solution, congratulations!

But why not combine the best of both worlds? I.e. make certain that you can change desktop preferences by calling pcmanfm from the alternative "Openbox " menu. This is very easy to do:
- open the next file for editing with the Leafpad editor, or the editor of your choice.

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~/.config.openbox/menu.xml

If this file is not present you can copy it from

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/etc/xdg/openbox/menu.xml

- look for the code snippet

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<menu id="/Debian" />
  <separator />
  <menu id="client-list-menu" />

and insert the next code just below this

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  <item label="Preferences">
    <action name="Execute"><execute>pcmanfm --desktop-pref</execute></action>
  </item>

This adds the menu-item "Preferences" to the Openbox desktop-menu, and the item is linked to the execution of the pcmanfm command.
- If the openbox desktop menu is running right-click on the desktop and choose "Restart" to restart Openbox with the new menu definition.
- Now if you again right-click on the desktop you see the new menu item "Preferences" under the item "Desktop". Selecting this item will start pcmanfm, where you can deselect "Show menus provided by window managers when desktop is clicked." again.

Succes!

[rinusvw]

I of course ment that you should edit the file

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~/.config/openbox/menu.xml

and not the file ~/.config.openbox/menu.xml
A single dot makes a huge difference

[Hobie]

You fix it in .config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

remove the " . " before @pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE-pi

Done.

[STech]

Sharing what worked for me:

~/.config/pcmanfm/LXDE-pi/desktop-items-0.conf

change "show_wm_menu" to 0

This is on Raspbian on a raspi3