Empty out your trashcan, baby
I am one of those guys who likes to have the trash icon on the desktop. When I installed Lucid Lynx, I discovered it didn’t have such an icon on the desktop. 😦 OK, there’s an icon in the lower right corner of the screen, but I want a giant icon on the desktop. Mostly just because it looks cool. So here are the steps to get the trash icon on your desktop.
You start by running gconf-editor from a terminal. This opens a configuration editor with on the left a tree structure.
Open the apps node, select nautilus and finally select desktop. The window should now look like the screenshot above. Just select the check box next to trash_icon_visible, et voilà, your trash icon is now visible on the desktop.
Now just go to the desktop, right-click the trash icon, select Stretch Icon… and just drag the icon to the desired size. I usually go for extra-large because there is a large amount of trash on my computer. (Note: the size of the icon is in no way correlated with the amount of data that can go in the trash folder!)
Just a final note about the title: it’s taken from the song DI-1-9026 by Foetus.