Trash Folder Stays Red When Empty - Solved

[papakanush]

I believe this is this right place to post this. My apologies if it is not.

After doing a fair amount of cleanup work on my external hard drive, I noticed that the Trash folder on my desktop stayed red after it was emptied, even when the external hard drive was no longer connected.

After some searching, I found this advice from the askubuntu site: https://askubuntu.com/questions/8664...op-icon-config

Where I replaced the existing text in the ~/Desktop/trash.desktop file with this:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Wastebin
Icon=user-trash-full
EmptyIcon=user-trash
Type=Link
URL=trash:/ 
OnlyShowIn=KDE;[COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif][/FONT][/COLOR]

It seems to have fixed the problem.

[chimak111]

What you ended up with is very much like the default trash.desktop file I have on Kubuntu 18.04:

$ cat trash.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Trash
Comment=Contains removed files
Icon=user-trash-full
EmptyIcon=user-trash
Type=Link
URL=trash:/
OnlyShowIn=KDE;
$