{"id":7659,"date":"2018-04-15T16:18:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7659"},"modified":"2018-04-15T16:18:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T16:18:07","slug":"remove-trash-icon-ubuntu-18-04-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/04\/remove-trash-icon-ubuntu-18-04-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"[Quick Tip] Remove Trash Icon from Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/classic-gnome-icon.png\" alt=\"gnome shell\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5741\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The trash can icon is moved from left launcher to desktop icon since Ubuntu switched back to Gnome Desktop.<\/p>\n<p>For those using files context menu or keyboard shortcut to delete file folders, and getting access to trash can via <b>Files<\/b> (nautilus file browser), the desktop icon is kinda useless and you may want to remove it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/trashcan-desktopicon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"293\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/trashcan-desktopicon.jpg 461w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/trashcan-desktopicon-450x286.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can easily remove (hide) the trash can desktop icon by doing following steps:<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open Ubuntu Software, search for and install <b>Gnome Tweaks<\/b>, a Gnome 3 desktop configuration tool.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gnome-tweak-ubuntusoftware-600x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"424\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gnome-tweak-ubuntusoftware-600x424.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gnome-tweak-ubuntusoftware-450x318.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gnome-tweak-ubuntusoftware-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gnome-tweak-ubuntusoftware.jpg 865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Once installed, launch Gnome Tweaks and navigate to <b>Desktop<\/b> pane. There you can see the toggles to show or hide some desktop icons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gnometweak-desktopicons-600x408.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gnometweak-desktopicons-600x408.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gnometweak-desktopicons-450x306.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gnometweak-desktopicons-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gnometweak-desktopicons.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Simply turn off the toggle for Trash and enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trash can icon is moved from left launcher to desktop icon since Ubuntu switched back to Gnome Desktop. For those using files context menu or keyboard shortcut to delete file folders, and getting access to trash can via Files (nautilus file browser), the desktop icon is kinda useless and you may want to remove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1533,1527],"class_list":["post-7659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-trash-can","tag-ubuntu-18-04"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}