Deleted Trash icon in KDE 3.4.2

jong357 · 09-05-2005, 01:45 AM

I built the latest KDE and was giving it a test run to see if everything worked ok. I switched back to Gnome and deleted the KDE Trash icon that was on my desktop because Gnome has traditionally been my WM of choice...

However, the couple hours that I used KDE, I was kinda taken with it... I'm thinking about switching possibly, but now I have no Trash icon on the desktop...

Could some kind soul cat their desktop file and post it here please? I assume it's maybe a "Trash.desktop" file or something similar? If not, does anyone have any ideas on how to get the little bugger back?

I've spent an hour or more tweaking out all the visual settings and don't feel like removing all KDE related stuff from my home directory and then having to fire up KDE again... I'm guessing it would be re-created that way but I don't really want to do that...

Right now I'm doing a rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/files/*

Thanks all...

dracolich · 09-05-2005, 06:53 AM

Start KDE with another user or root and cp the ~/Desktop/Trash.desktop to your user's directory and adjust the ownership and permissions accordingly.

ralvy · 09-05-2005, 10:17 AM

When this has happened to me, I simply used Right Click to created a "Link to Location (URL)" on my desktop, using

Code:

trash:/

as its URL. That's all.

jong357 · 09-05-2005, 02:22 PM

Thanks guys. Both capital idea's....

Manually creating the file as ralvy suggests results in:

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Icon=trashcan_full
Type=Link
URL=trash:/

Which, gives you a constant "full" trash icon whether it's full or not. Adding another line with "EmptyIcon=trashcan_empty" will make it behave normally. This is the default .desktop file that KDE creates only without all the forign language names and comments:

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Link
URL=trash:/
Encoding=UTF-8
Icon=trashcan_full
EmptyIcon=trashcan_empty
Name=Trash
Comment=Contains removed files

ralvy · 09-05-2005, 02:46 PM

jong357,

I didn't know about this:

Code:

Icon=trashcan_full
EmptyIcon=trashcan_empty

That solves the problem of the icon never changing. Thanks!

jong357 · 09-05-2005, 03:05 PM

See, aren't you glad you posted....