It doesn't work on Trisquel 6 with GeForce FX5500 and nomodeset activated.
I should say that I tried with i686 live on a 64 bit machine.
(Athlon 64 3400+ 2GB Ram and above mentioned graphic card with 512MB
dedicated Ram)
In this case the only way is to edit manually as root the config file in
/usr/share/gnome....
By the way, on the same machine Abrowser causes a freeze and the only way to
solve is force reboot with hardware's (case) switch.
Alt+Right Click works if you boot livecd with nomodeset activated but you
have an awful resolution with a 16:9 widescreen display. :-/