hi frnz !!!! i am a fedora 5 user . i have copied some documents from a cd and paste it on desktop. but now i am not able to delete those files... whenever i try to do it an error messege comes........"" u dont have permission to modify this or it's parent folder.......". if u know the solution then plz help me !!!

CODEcd ~/Desktop
CODEsu
CODEchmod 777 (files or you could just put an * for all files
CODErm -fr (files)

thanks a lot........ but plz help me once more.................. i cant find trash when i am in ~home/myname/desktop and i am using "ls" command ! thats why i am not able to change permissions for trash and i cant make it empty !! plzz tell me where from i can find trash.

to change to your trash do the following
CODEcd ~/.Trash