Ubuntu – I can’t open the trash from the Launcher’s Trash Icon

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I am an upgraded user from Ubuntu 11.04 to Ubuntu 11.10
On Ubuntu 11.10 when I click on the Trash icon in the Unity launcher, it does not open the Trash can. Why?

Best Answer

IF you did an upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10 then do this

gedit ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

In the [Default Applications] section you will find a line that starts with

inode/directory=

Delete the line & save

Again to note: this is only if you did a 11.04 upgrade to 11.10

Edit: This will shortly be addressed by an upgrade to nautilus, the new package is currently in oneiric-proposed & hopefully will be moved to oneiric main repo in near future, my bug on.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/876788

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