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Do all DEs store the trash in the same place? (self.linux)

submitted 3 months ago by DeltaWingDragon to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

${XDG_DATA_HOME}/Trash is fairly common and afaik the default in Gnome and KDE

FreeDesktop.org trash spec

[–] DeltaWingDragon 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

OK, got it

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Oh that's neat! Thanks for the tip!

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