Trash bin "empty trash" option is grayed out.

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Monday, October 8th 2007, 9:21pm

A while back I installed xfce to play with it, and found that I had 2 trashbins on the xfce desktop, so I deleted the one that didn't work. (DUH.)
Back in KDE, this removed my desktop Trash bin. To restore the KDE trash bin I did this:

create file ~/Desktop/Trash.desktop containing the following:
[Desktop Entry]
Comment=Contains removed files
EmptyIcon=trashcan_empty
Encoding=UTF-8
Icon=trashcan_full
Name=Trash
Type=Link
URL=trash:/
I also tried right clicking on the desktop to create a url which links to trash:/ with some success too.

So I have a trashbin now, but the option to "empty trash bin" is grayed out, and when the trash bin contains files or folders, the icon still appears empty.

ls -l gives this:

	Source code
1	-rw-r--r-- 1 misfit138 users 140 2007-10-08 15:52 Trash.desktop

I have also tried refreshing desktop, and reloading the icon theme. I've exhausted my googling and cannot figure out how to restore the empty trash function, nor correct the empty icon, when trash is full. Any help is appreciated.

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chepioq

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Location: Aubagne France

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Tuesday, October 9th 2007, 7:06am

RE: Trash bin "empty trash" option is grayed out.

Have you re-start your PC after create trash-desktop?

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Misfit138

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Tuesday, October 9th 2007, 1:25pm

Yes I have, countless times.

This has been an issue for a while now, and I can't seem to correct it.

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chepioq

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Location: Aubagne France

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Tuesday, October 9th 2007, 1:37pm

I am not on my PC , and I have no linux , but try to see in your root directory, /root/home/Desktop ,if the syntaxe off the trash.desktop are the same...
Also copy your root trash.desktop in your user/home/Desktop directory (with the good permission...) and re_boot