Trash Applet Broken

[Daniel Robitaille]

> > OK guys. I somehow broke my trash applet.
> >
> > If the applet is on my panel and I send something to the trash, it no
> > longer shows to have trash in the can.
> >
> > If I get rid of the trash applet and then reinstall it on my panel,
> > then it appears with trash in it. But when I delete the trash
> > (~/.Trash is empty), the can still appears like it has trash in it.
> >
> > If I have the trash on my desktop, it still works right.
> >
> > I tried logging out of Gnome and back in, it didn't help.
> >
> > Any ideas?

some gnome-trash related process hung in some ways, and was still
"running" after you logged out and in in again.  By rebooting, you
cleared it out, restoring your trash-can functionality.

Before the reboot it could have been interesting if you would have
logged in via the console (thus not starting any new gnome processes),
and then check which processes under your user name was still running
in the background from your previous session. Then maybe you could
have killed it thus avoiding the reboot.  But we'll probably never
know...