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gwaar

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2011-02-11

Posts: 21

Trashy Problems

Well, once again I find myself ear deep in lots of web pages that have pointed me in all sorts of directions.

Trash applets on my new installation of arch don't work. Having installed AWN, I found that trying to use the trash applet gave me the error "Failed to open 'trash:' Operation not supported." Thunar will still open to the trash directory after the error message, which is the only time a trash icon appears in the Thunar sidebar - the option to empty the trash still remains grayed out, as it does everywhere else. The trash panel applet included in Xfce gives the slightly different "Failed to connect to the Trash. Operation not supported." In addition, the trash icon doesn't appear on my desktop. As far as I've managed to trace back is some sort of problem with xdg-open - "xdg-open trash" gives the same error as AWN. I've also hit on stuff talking about gvfs however, which makes me thik this might be complicated by my install.

My /home partition is from an old Ubuntu install, which I decided to get rid of after 11.04 came out. I wonder if there could be some sort of problems associated with conflicts between Ubuntu files and Arch ones. Any help is appreciated.

Last edited by gwaar (2011-06-27 07:16:47)

Eishorn

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From: somewhere

Registered: 2011-04-18

Posts: 36

Re: Trashy Problems

It's not the best idea to use an existing /home partition with config files from another distribution still on it. To avoid headache, create a new user and move your personal files (or point to their old location by using xdg-user-dirs).
To the thunar trash problem, did you install gvfs and enable dbus/consolekit according to your WM/DE's the xfce wiki page?

EDIT: I should probably read posts before I answer them

Last edited by Eishorn (2011-06-27 16:03:24)

ANOKNUSA

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Registered: 2010-10-22

Posts: 2,141

Re: Trashy Problems

It's some consolekit/dbus issue; I'm not sure what, but it seems to be plaguing a few things on my system.  For the time being, run Thunar and AWN with the "dbus-launch" prefix.  I'll have to figure out what my particular issue is when I get the time.

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frederik

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Registered: 2014-01-05

Posts: 8

Re: Trashy Problems

Sorry for answering to this VERY VERY old thread, but since this has been the first page I found in google, maybe someone else will help my solution for this:

Do not forget to activate the autostart for "AT-SPI D-Bus Bus" in the systemsettings of xfce. This solves it for me.

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,426

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Re: Trashy Problems

Please don't necrobump: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

Closing

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