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# Other Desktop Menus

There are a few desktop menus you may use in GNOME. These menus are accessed by making a right-button mouse click on any clean space on the desktop. This will bring up a pop-up menu which contains a few items:

- New | Terminal - This launches a new GNOME Terminal window that will automatically navigate to the `~/.gnome-desktop` directory.

- New | Directory - This creates a new directory on your desktop into which you can place files: a convenient way to clean up your desktop.

- New | Launcher - This allows you to place a new application launcher on the desktop. When selected, this menu item will launch an Application Launcher dialog that allows you to specify which application and its properties.

- New | [application] - Some applications may put items for you in the New menu. For example, the Gnumeric spreadsheet will put a New Gnumeric Spreadsheet menu item in the New menu so you can start up a new spreadsheet easily.

- Arrange Icons - This automatically arranges your desktop icons.

- Create New Window - This launches a new GNOME File Manager window displaying your Home directory.

- Recreate Desktop Shortcuts - This rescans the mountable devices on your machine and display an icon for any new device it might find. It also reloads any desktop items your distribution places on the desktop by default.

- Rescan Desktop - This rescans the files in your `~/.gnome-desktop` directory. Any new files found will be placed on the desktop as icons.

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