Right Click Context menu broken on one desktop

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I am running Fedora 44 KDE. This install started as Fedora 41 I believe, and I have just been upgrading as they have been rolling out. I am having an issue where my right click context menu is broken on one desktop and no the other. It is broken on my primary desktop and not my second. I also can’t drag and drop any files on my primary desktop either. I get a widget pop-up and that’s it. Mind you all of these things work just fine and normally on my secondary desktop. Even if I switch which monitor is the primary desktop, it doesn’t fix the issue.

Update: so I played around some more and found that the context menu now changes when I change which of my 2 displays are the primary. Now whichever display is the primary, that one has normal context menu options. The secondary has the shortened menu.

Update Update: So now it’s the other way around.

This image is when I try and drop a file on the desktop.

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This is the context menu I get on my primary desktop from a right click.

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This image is what happens when I right click on my secondary desktop.

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Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. :slight_smile:

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Two things for you to try:

  1. Create a new user and login as the new user. Does the mouse work as expected?
  2. Try a different mouse, it might be a hardware issue with the mouse.
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How would a hardware issue make the behaviour dependent on which screen the mouse pointer is on, though?

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I thought the OP was talk about 2 systems not 2 screen on 1 system

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If you right-click on each display and choose “Desktop and Wallpaper”, what do you see in the “Layout” dropdown?

The two choices are “Desktop” and “Folder View”. “Folder View” makes the right-click context menu look like the one on your secondary monitor, “Desktop” makes it look like the one on your primary monitor.

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This one right?

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Correct!

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That was it! Holy hell, you’re my hero! Thank you so much. I never noticed that setting, or gave it any thought before.