On Cinnamon and LxQt, the trash is in ~/.local/share/Trash. Is it the same for all desktop environments?

      • KindaABigDyl@programming.dev
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        2 years ago

        Also fyi there’s trash-cli

        I have rm aliased to trash-rm (not in sudo tho, so I can still force true deletion), so that if I remove something in terminal it also goes to trash.

        You can empty the trash via trash-empty

        It also uses ${XDG_DATA_HOME}/Trash (usually ~/.local/share/Trash)

  • Samueru@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    May I know why did you ask this?

    Edit: Why didnt people like this comment lol

    • DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      2 years ago

      I need the exact location of the trash so I can specify it in the excludes for my backup tool. If it changes with the DE, then I have to change the excludes. But it doesn’t.

      • Samueru@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        What can change is the location of XDG_DATA_HOME, (highly unlikely but it is possible, usually it is the user that changes that and not the distro).

        This trick fixes that highly unlikely posibility of the Trash dir being moved, add this to the exclude dirs:

        ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/Trash