I cannot open Desktop

I have had some problems after a hard disk crash, especially with iphoto. Now, I flet quite happy that iphoto worked again and that my libraries were in place, when I doscovered that I cannot save anything to the desktop. There is no program allocated to open this document, is the message I get. It is not a document - how do I get this right again?
KH

what happens what you try ?
if the icon is not even marked as selected then likely your mouse button is broken

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