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

      • @[email protected]
        34•7 months 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)

        • dave@hal9000
          1•7 months ago

          Oh that’s neat! Thanks for the tip!

  • palordrolap
    21•7 months ago

    Be aware that for some removable (or otherwise non-local) media, some systems will create a .Trash-### directory on the media itself in the root directory.

    This prevents unnecessary copying of files from the media to a local disk, and only a few media-specific location indicators actually need to be changed for the Trashed file(s).

    The ### is generally the user’s ID number as stored in /etc/passwd, and, on Debian derivatives at least, is usually 1000 for the first user, 1001 for the second, etc., but I have heard of some systems that just use .Trash with no suffix, or did so at some point in the past.

      • @[email protected]
        16•7 months ago

        There is usually misunderstanding behind this type of questions. for example “why isn’t ilike on macos where it is ~/.Trash” and then one has to explain what XDG_DATA_HOME is and why it makes sense for trash to be there (And that it doesn’t have to do with the desktop environment as well).

        Or op just lost something important thinking that the trash was somewhere else.

    • @[email protected]
      4•7 months ago

      I also don’t understand. Sometimes the answer to a question is equally or more interesting than the reason a question is asked

    • @[email protected]OP
      1•7 months 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.

      • @[email protected]
        1•7 months 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