amanchesterman
July 2nd, 2012, 09:02 PM
I have Xubuntu 12.04 (the sole OS on this laptop) and it works fine and I'm very happy with it.
Today I noticed something odd. On the desktop I have the three default location icons: the home folder, the file system, and the 'rubbish bin' (= wastebasket). On the latter there is a picture of a waste bin (of course) and it looks empty. And when I hover the mouse pointer over the icon a message appears: 'wastebasket is empty'.
Except that it isn't. I know it isn't, 'cos I delete stuff all the time and never empty the bin; and when I double-click on the icon, it opens the 'rubbish bin' folder in Thunar, and there are several gigs of junk files there.
So why does the icon tell lies about being empty, when it knows it isn't?
BTW this is not a big issue for me ... I'm just curious really ... :p
Thanks for your time
John
Today I noticed something odd. On the desktop I have the three default location icons: the home folder, the file system, and the 'rubbish bin' (= wastebasket). On the latter there is a picture of a waste bin (of course) and it looks empty. And when I hover the mouse pointer over the icon a message appears: 'wastebasket is empty'.
Except that it isn't. I know it isn't, 'cos I delete stuff all the time and never empty the bin; and when I double-click on the icon, it opens the 'rubbish bin' folder in Thunar, and there are several gigs of junk files there.
So why does the icon tell lies about being empty, when it knows it isn't?
BTW this is not a big issue for me ... I'm just curious really ... :p
Thanks for your time
John