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The Desktop Context Menu

If you click and hold on an unoccupied area of the desktop, the desktop context menu pops open.

The menu contains these commands:

Desktop represents the folder that holds the items that are on the desktop. Hold the mouse over this item for a moment and a menu that displays the contents of the Desktop folder will pop open.

New Folder creates a new folder and places it on the desktop.

Icon View and Mini Icon View tell the desktop to display large or small icons. The mode that's currently selected is checked. You can read more about it here.

Desktop Settings contains settings for the Tracker, plus icons (SVG and Thumbnails).

Clean Up aligns the icons on the desktop so they fall into a neat grid.

Select All selects all the icons on the desktop (so you can shift them on the screen as a group, for example).

Mount pops open a menu of disks that are mounted or that are available to be mounted (described in Mounting and Unmounting Disks).

Add-Ons is a menu of "modules" that perform a variety of operations. Add-ons, which are described in Add-ons, allow third parties (and Zeta itself) to extend the functionality of the desktop and other areas of Zeta.

Each of the icons on the desktop has its own context menu. Context menus for folders and files are identical to the Tracker's File menu. The context menu for a disk provides some basic operations on the disk (Open, Get Info, Edit Name), and lets you unmount the disk.

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