{"id":459,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=459"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"renaming-the-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"Renaming the Trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Editor&#8217;s note: This is quite a hack&#8230; not particularly elegant IMO&#8230; but it works, I suppose.]<\/i><br \/>\nPage 66-67 of the BeOS Bible says:<br \/>\n&#8222;<b><i>Don&#8217;t Rename the Trash<\/i><\/b>&#8230;.you&#8217;ve always renamed Windows 95&#8217;s Recycle Bin to &#8218;Garbaj&#8216;,&#8220; and now you&#8217;ve grown quite fond of the name&#8230;.In short, don&#8217;t try it&#8220; [get the book for the whole quote].<br \/>\nIf you want to have &#8222;Garbaj&#8220; on your Desktop, you can make a link to the Trash and hide the real Trash behind the Deskbar. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> Open Terminal.\n<li> Enter this: <code>ln -s \/boot\/home\/Desktop\/Trash \/boot\/home\/Desktop\/Garbaj<\/code>\n<li> You should now have an icon labelled &#8222;Garbaj&#8220; on your desktop.\n<li> To complete the effect, drag the real Trash icon behind your deskbar to hide it. <\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor&#8217;s note: This is quite a hack&#8230; not particularly elegant IMO&#8230; but it works, I suppose.] Page 66-67 of the BeOS Bible says: &#8222;Don&#8217;t Rename the Trash&#8230;.you&#8217;ve always renamed Windows 95&#8217;s Recycle Bin to &#8218;Garbaj&#8216;,&#8220; and now you&#8217;ve grown quite fond of the name&#8230;.In short, don&#8217;t try it&#8220; [get the book for the whole quote]. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-tracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}