[kde-linux] home dir on remote disk?

James Richard Tyrer tyrerj at acm.org
Sun Dec 18 06:48:54 UTC 2005


Allen Hopkins wrote:
> Hi.  I'm using K Desktop on a Redhat Enterprise Linux release 4.
> Everything worked great until I tried using a remote-mounted home
> directory for myself.
> 
> Now I can't drag anything to the trash.  I suspect it's because dragging
> things to a folder that's not local is considered to be copying, and
> copying to the trash isn't allowed (?).
> 
> Making ~/.Trash be a symbolic link to a local .Trash is also no help.
> Any ideas?  Is there a way to configure where you want your trash can to 
> live?

That directory (~/.Trash) is the old trash directory.  You can delete 
it.  The new trash system uses the URL: "trash:/" for trash.

Does using the context menu: "Move to Trash" work?

-- 
JRT



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