Trash can stays red after I empty it. How do I get it back to blue.

[facepalm]

This post here did not work because my settings were already those defaults: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ight=red+trash

I tried rebooting, no go. I tried logging out, and back in, no go. I turned on hidden files and saw there was nothing there. This laptop was not connected to a network drive, and no thumb drives or other drives were connected.

What can I do.

Thank you.

Kubuntu 18.04.1 64 bit Intel

[GreyGeek]

Under the Directory folder is
/home/jerry/Desktop/trash.desktop

The last part of that file (on my Bionic) is:

Icon=user-trash-full
EmptyIcon=user-trash
Type=Link
URL=trash:/
OnlyShowIn=KDE;

I am using the Breeze desktop theme. My trash can works OK.
Yours is stuck on user-trash-full.svg, which is red. user-trash.svg is blue. When you empty your trash the system is not switching from "Icon" to "EmptyIcon".

It could be that the path to the icon locations is corrupted in a config file other than this desktop file. Try changing to a different theme, then change back to the one you have. Those Icons for Breeze are located here: /usr/share/icons/breeze/places/

[Qqmike]

What about
Right-click on the Desktop
Refresh Desktop

[papakanush]

See this link:

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...377#post419377

[facepalm]

Nothing works. Now my desktop has done it too. My desktop sometimes goes back to blue for no apparent reason. Both the laptop and desktop are stock installs of Kubuntu 18.04 and the only thing I did was to install Chrome and the WordPress apps straight from google.com and wordpress.com and change the wallpaper and setup Firefox. I don't use any other apps except for maybe LibreOffice, and I have never been sudo except to do sudo dpkg -a -configure because that's what Discover told me to do. What's my next move guys.
Try changing to a different theme, then change back to the one you have. Didn't work.
What about Right-click on the Desktop and Refresh Desktop, didn't work.
https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...377#post419377 This didn't work either.

[GreyGeek]

Trash can stays red after I empty it. How do I get it back to blue.

Mmmm ... did something the trigger the trash icon on your desktop to fill the display? Can you find a corner of it and resize it?

[facepalm]

I fired up the laptop and lo and behold the trash can was blue! No idea how it got that way. Thanks anyway. I'll come back if it happens again.

[Qqmike]

I fired up the laptop and lo and behold the trash can was blue! No idea how it got that way. Thanks anyway. I'll come back if it happens again.

I've had this happen in 18.04. Went bad, then cured itself. A fleeting problem. Sometimes I'll try re-boot, or I'll run Bleachbit and clean everything out, or re-start the desktop (Control+Alt+Backspace), and so on. I usually just ignore it. Or Open and close the Trash can. And sometimes, the issue clears up without any apparent reason (or correlation to anything I do).