trashcan has disappear from panel

[Mike Basinger]

The trashcan applet does not shown up on my panel, even though the process it running.

dbasinge 29941 0.6 0.4 37176 8312 ? Sl 18:33 0:00 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/trashapplet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Panel_TrashApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=22

This is a new account.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. What version of Ubuntu are you using? Do you get the issue using a stock user?

[Mike Basinger (mike.basinger)]

This is in Hardy Alpha 6 with a new user account.

[Ludovic Lebègue (llebegue)]

This happened to me as well. No idea of the circumstances but a logout/login solved this.

[Mike Basinger (mike.basinger)]

It still happens, but very infrequent and relogging back in always brings it back.

[sam88824 (sam88824)]

I just installed ubuntu 8.04 and the trashcan disappears sometimes. After I logout and log in again sometimes the trashcan returns.

[Robert Anderson (robertanderson1985-gmail)]

I get the disappearing trashcan as well, I think it disappears when my screen saver kicks in. Anybody got any ideas?

[Del Griffith (delgriffith-deactivatedaccount)]

Confirmed in 8.04.

A friend who uses my system under a non-sudo account I created for them asked me why their trashcan in the taskbar bottom-right kept disappearing. "Where's the trashcan? I looked around and I can't see it?" I thought it was because I had changed the theme for him from the default human theme to a blue one (I forget the name of the theme I changed it to), and I had seen the trash icon there when I set it up for him. I thought he was crazy, so I logged into his account with him there, and sure enough, it was gone. I googled for info and saw this page, my friend began dancing in celebration. It turns out he wasn't crazy after all, but I had never experienced this strange bug before now.

This does not occur for me on my sudo-enabled user account, the first account created during the Ubuntu install. It does occur for my friend when he logs into his non-sudo account. He uses a different theme, one of the others offered in the default install, it gives him a blue trashcan and a green running stick figure Quit icon in the top right corner of the screen. He has no other problems other than this disappearing trash icon. I enabled the Trash icon on his desktop and he is satisfied, he hasn't said a word about the missing trash icon even though it still is missing when he logs into his account.

I'm not sure at what point the trash icon on the bottom panel started disappearing for him.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try if that's still an issue in hardy or intrepid?

[Robert Anderson (robertanderson1985-gmail)]

sorry, i can't. i've built a new computer since then. But, before I
installed windows (I know, I know, but I have my reasons) I didn't have that
problem Sorry I can't help ya..

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> could you try if that's still an issue in hardy or intrepid?
>
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-applets (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> trashcan has disappear from panel
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/199707
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "gnome-applets" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> The trashcan applet does not shown up on my panel, even though the process
> it running.
>
> dbasinge 29941 0.6 0.4 37176 8312 ? Sl 18:33 0:00
> /usr/lib/gnome-applets/trashapplet
> --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Panel_TrashApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=22
>
> This is a new account.
>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing the bug, that could be bug #211604 which has been fixed in hardy-updates and intrepid now