Ubuntu: Place Trash Icon on the Desktop

Contributor Icon Contributed by Rob Rogers  
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Instead of having the trash icon on one of your panels, you can place it on your Ubuntu desktop for easier access. This is a great help for users whose previous operating system was Windows. It also beats trying to find the little trash icon on on of your panels.


First, let’s add the Gnome Configuration Editor to the Main Menu. You can access it via the terminal window, but I like this way better.

1. Right-click the Main Menu and select Edit Menus.

2. In the left pane, expand Applications and select System Tools.

3. In the right pane, check the checkbox next to Configuration Editor.

4. Click the Close button.

To place the Trash icon on the desktop:

1. Click Applications, mouseover System Tools and select Configuration Editor.

2. In the left pane, expand apps.

3. Scroll down to nautilus and expand it.

4. Select desktop.

5. In the right pane, check the trash_icon_visible checkbox.

6. Close the Configuration Editor.

 

7 Comments -


  1. New Linux User said on May 13, 2009

    Thank you very much! This was very helpful to me. Your directions are easy to follow.

  2. Anonymous said on October 11, 2009

    Yes, this was quite helpful!

  3. Dr. Floyd said on May 19, 2010

    Thank you very much! This was just what I needed. :-)

  4. surfer said on May 27, 2010

    thanks

  5. Selahattin said on July 4, 2010

    Great, thanks!

  6. Parthiban said on August 3, 2010

    Hey Thank you!

  7. UbuntuDood said on September 22, 2010

    That should be on by default…. geeze….. THANK YOU!

 

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