[...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -ld .local/ > drwx------ 3 mshapiro mshapiro 4096 2006-04-23 06:36 .local/ > > and the same for ~/.local/share as well.
Protection is okay. Same here. Only important thing is that processes owned by you can create the directories, as it's the case for you. [...] > Creating ~/.local/share/Trash did not work, it still failed. If the > permissions are wrong for ~/.local, that might explain why. Unfortunately not. Wild guessing, would be easier if I could reproduce it here but works fine in my fresh ubuntu gnome installation :( What does echo $XDG_DATA_HOME kde-config --path xdgdata-dirs kde-config --path xdgdata-apps return? Does the start with ~/.local/share/... Do you have a Desktop/trash.desktop file? Mine looks like: $ cat ~/Desktop/trash.desktop [Desktop Entry] Comment=Contains removed files EmptyIcon=trashcan_empty Encoding=UTF-8 Icon=trashcan_full Name=Trash NoDisplay=true OnlyShowIn=KDE Type=Link URL=trash:/ $ ls -l ~/Desktop/trash.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 ach ach 169 2006-11-16 21:49 /home/ach/Desktop/trash.desktop This file is created vi kdesktop (that might never run in a Gnome desktop). Achim -- Gnome and KDE trash are incompatible. Was: usdigikam expects trash to be in ~/Desktop/Trash - causes error in Ubuntu https://launchpad.net/bugs/75435 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs