Trash icon on the Puppy desktop is not a normal icon.
It is what is called a Rox App.
Rox file manager does not have a builtin trash, so the desktop trash is Puppies version of trash.
It has to be on the desktop for you to use it.
Trash Rox-App Help Page
Background
If you delete something with ROX-filer (or various other linux filers) it is permanently deleted, NOT sent to the trash. (If you have deleted something just now, you may be able to recover it - look at the bottom of this page)
In 2005 Dan Van Wormer wrote the "Trash" Rox-App for Puppy Linux with help from GuestToo, to provide a counterpart to the Windows "Recycle Bin". It was subsequently updated by disciple to fix bugs and add various features.
How to send something to the trash
To send something to the Trash, drag it onto the Trash roxapp from a filer window or the pinboard. You can also add the Trash to Rox-filer's "Open with" or "Send to" list.
You will get a prompt if you send a symbolic link to the Trash. This is just to let you know that you are not sending the original item to the Trash.
Looking in the trash
Each trashed item is stored in a roxapp inside /$HOME/.Trash, which also contains information about the item such as the deletion date and the original path, and has a unique suffix so you can delete multiple items with the same name.
Clicking on the Trash roxapp will open the /$HOME/.Trash directory, and will update the Trash icon if the Trash is empty but has a full icon. Right-clicking on the roxapp and selecting "Look in the Trash" will also open the Trash.
Right-clicking on the Trash roxapp and selecting "View Summary" will show you a summary of what is in the trash.
Dealing with trashed items
When the Trash is open you can click on a file to see information about it. The information window has buttons for further actions:
Press "Cancel" if you don't want to do anything with the item.
Press "Show" to show the item in Rox.
Pressing "Open" is the same as clicking the deleted item in rox, so will open a deleted folder in rox, open a deleted file in the default application, or run a deleted program.
Pressing "Restore" will restore the item to its original location. If there is now something else there with the same name, it will be trashed before the item is restored.
Pressing "Delete" will delete the item from the trash.
You can also right-click an item in the trash to access these options directly.
Emptying the trash
To empty the trash right-click on the roxapp and select "Empty the Trash". Emptying the Trash will display all the files and directories in the trash and ask for confirmation. Unless it is disabled, you can instead choose to "Quickly Empty the Trash", which will not display the contents of the Trash or ask for confirmation. You can enable this feature in AppInfo.xml, inside the Trash roxapp.
Limitations
Unfortunately the "View Summary" feature will not display items trashed by older versions of the Trash than the one in Puppy 4.1
The "View Summary" feature currently doesn't display any leading spaces in the "Item" and "Name" fields - this is a gtkdialog issue, and will occur in programs like Pfind as well.
At present everything is trashed into your $HOME folder - there are not separate Trash directories on each partition. This means you probably do not want to trash large files from elsewhere, particularly if you run Puppy from CD or a frugal install, in which case it would rapidly fill up your save file.
There are no checks for disk space - either for space in $HOME when you trash an item, or for space in other places when you restore a trashed item.
If you are using a very old version of Rox that does not support SOAP, when you "Trash" an item that has a link to it on the Desktop the pinboard must be restarted to update the desktop icons. You will notice a "flicker" as this happens. Such Rox versions will also not restore a desktop shortcut when you restore an item.
didn't understand the trash - how can I recover my deleted files?
MAKE SURE you don't write anything else to the disc they were on, or you may overwrite them. Then check out Photorec from the Testdisc package - it is good at recovering a lot of things, although it was particularly designed to recover photos from camera memory cards.
Note:
If you want to do some tweaking of the trash.
Read the other posts.
