HOWTO: Seeing the Trash icon in your Desktop (Ubuntu Dapper)

In Ubuntu Dapper Drake, there’s no trash icon in the Desktop, it’s in the bottom panel right side. In this article I’m going to explain how to show the Trash icon in the Desktop. Type the following:

gconf-editor &

a window will pop up, with the gnome registry:

There will be a panel in the left side.

Go to apps->nautilus->desktop and click on the variable trash_icon_visible and you’ll get the Trash in your desktop. See the screenshot below:

trashicon.png

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7 Responses to “HOWTO: Seeing the Trash icon in your Desktop (Ubuntu Dapper)”

  1. Routerbad Says:
    August 9, 2006 at 9:06 am | Reply

    Thanks a bunch, been wondering how to do that

  2. Dan Says:
    September 18, 2006 at 12:21 pm | Reply

    Does anybody know how to do this under KDE?

    I edited the desktop entry ‘trash.desktop’ and set ‘NoDisplay=true’ to false but the icon still won’t show up?!

  3. jordilin Says:
    September 18, 2006 at 8:42 pm | Reply

    Dan,
    Follow this link
    http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/qna/14638.html
    Hope that helps

  4. Curtis Says:
    October 11, 2006 at 6:05 pm | Reply

    Thanks a lot. I never knew it was an option, but I do prefer it now that I have it. It always felt so strange to drag trash onto the panel.

  5. Greg Says:
    March 13, 2007 at 4:10 pm | Reply

    Worked perfectly. Thank you. Funny it’s the little things that add up to a real operating environment.

  6. bristolbadger Says:
    September 25, 2007 at 4:38 pm | Reply

    Wizard. This was starting to pi$$ me off… this is the simplest explanation i;ve seen to sort this,, ahem, oversight…

  7. winston Says:
    October 7, 2007 at 8:15 pm | Reply

    thank you

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