On Thursday 15 November 2001 14:04, "Éric" Brunet wrote:
> In ens.mailing-lists.kde-devel, you wrote:
> >with a revlutionary new feature that allows you to turn off those pesky icons 
> >on your desktop!
> 
> By the way, a small item on the big wishlist...
> 
> For some reason, I don't like having icons on the desktop as a regular
> basis (putting some temporary file on the desktop and deleting it
> afterwards is useful, so I don't want to turn off all those pesky icons,
> but, in the stationary state, I want a clean desktop).
> 
> My problem is to remove the rubish bin.
> 
> It seems that kdesktop check that the rubish bin is present, and puts it
> back if it is not. The only I found to prevent the rubish-bin from
> reappearing was to put the Desktop directory read-only. (That is kde
> 2.1.2. I am waiting for kde 2.2.2 before upgrading). Is there a smoother
> way to remove definetely the rubish-bin ?

Configure Desktop -> you'll find 4 lineedits for various paths,
one of them is the location of the Trash. Set its path to something
else (e.g. ~/.kde/Trash) and you're done.

-- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/ , http://www.konqueror.org/
KDE 3.0: Konquering the Desktops

 
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