Hi All,
I've got a really dumb question. I seem to have lost my Trash Can on my KDE desktop and try and as I might I can't get it back. Anyone have any idea how I can create this again or get it back? It's on the desktop as it should be in Gnome, but has disappeared from the KDE desktop.
On 4/21/07, Mark Weaver mdw1982@mdw1982.com wrote:
Hi All,
I've got a really dumb question. I seem to have lost my Trash Can on my KDE desktop and try and as I might I can't get it back. Anyone have any idea how I can create this again or get it back? It's on the desktop as it should be in Gnome, but has disappeared from the KDE desktop.
Possibly by:
mkdir ~/Desktop/Trash ???
Akemi
On Sat April 21 2007 12:04, Mark Weaver wrote:
I've got a really dumb question. I seem to have lost my Trash Can on my KDE desktop and try and as I might I can't get it back. Anyone have any idea how I can create this again or get it back? It's on the desktop as it should be in Gnome, but has disappeared from the KDE desktop.
It's just a folder. You can create a new one by right clicking on your desktop and creating a folder. Then point that folder to
/home/<user>/Desktop/Trash
On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 12:14 -0400, Robert Spangler wrote:
On Sat April 21 2007 12:04, Mark Weaver wrote:
I've got a really dumb question. I seem to have lost my Trash Can on my KDE desktop and try and as I might I can't get it back. Anyone have any idea how I can create this again or get it back? It's on the desktop as it should be in Gnome, but has disappeared from the KDE desktop.
It's just a folder. You can create a new one by right clicking on your desktop and creating a folder. Then point that folder to
/home/<user>/Desktop/Trash
yeah...um here's the rub.., I get the distinct impression it's not "just" another folder. you can create tons of folders anywhere on the filesystem and not one of them will behave the same way the Trash folder does which leads me to believe there is something special about it. For instance when you delete stuff it auto-magically goes into the "trash" folder. When you right click on it one of your choices is "Empty Trash".
So I'm pretty certain it's not just a folder.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 12:41 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dumb question (KDE Trash Can)
On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 12:14 -0400, Robert Spangler wrote:
On Sat April 21 2007 12:04, Mark Weaver wrote:
I've got a really dumb question. I seem to have lost my
Trash Can on my
KDE desktop and try and as I might I can't get it back.
Anyone have any
idea how I can create this again or get it back? It's on
the desktop as
it should be in Gnome, but has disappeared from the KDE desktop.
It's just a folder. You can create a new one by right
clicking on your
desktop and creating a folder. Then point that folder to
/home/<user>/Desktop/Trash
yeah...um here's the rub.., I get the distinct impression it's not "just" another folder. you can create tons of folders anywhere on the filesystem and not one of them will behave the same way the Trash folder does which leads me to believe there is something special about it. For instance when you delete stuff it auto-magically goes into the "trash" folder. When you right click on it one of your choices is "Empty Trash".
So I'm pretty certain it's not just a folder.
Look in:
/usr/share/apps/kdesktop
file: directory.Trash
If it exists edit it and make sure it is not hidden.
Also:
/usr/share/apps/systemview
file: trash.desktop
Make sure it exists and isn't hidden.
-Ross
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On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 12:57 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 12:41 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dumb question (KDE Trash Can)
On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 12:14 -0400, Robert Spangler wrote:
On Sat April 21 2007 12:04, Mark Weaver wrote:
I've got a really dumb question. I seem to have lost my
Trash Can on my
KDE desktop and try and as I might I can't get it back.
Anyone have any
idea how I can create this again or get it back? It's on
the desktop as
it should be in Gnome, but has disappeared from the KDE desktop.
It's just a folder. You can create a new one by right
clicking on your
desktop and creating a folder. Then point that folder to
/home/<user>/Desktop/Trash
yeah...um here's the rub.., I get the distinct impression it's not "just" another folder. you can create tons of folders anywhere on the filesystem and not one of them will behave the same way the Trash folder does which leads me to believe there is something special about it. For instance when you delete stuff it auto-magically goes into the "trash" folder. When you right click on it one of your choices is "Empty Trash".
So I'm pretty certain it's not just a folder.
Look in:
/usr/share/apps/kdesktop
file: directory.Trash
If it exists edit it and make sure it is not hidden.
Also:
/usr/share/apps/systemview
file: trash.desktop
Make sure it exists and isn't hidden.
-Ross
Aaaaaaaaaaah yes! thank you Ross. That did the trick. I copied /usr/share/apps/kdesktop/desktop.trash into ~/.kde/share/apps/kdesktop/ and it works now.
I thought it might be something like that but just ran into a wall as to where exactly to look to restore it.
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Akemi Yagi -
Mark Weaver -
Robert Spangler -
Ross S. W. Walker