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Do all DEs store the trash in the same place? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] 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] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

May I know why did you ask this?

Edit: Why didnt people like this comment lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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 points 5 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 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] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Probably because they were interested and wanted to know?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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.