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

  • palordrolap@kbin.social
    22·
    11 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.

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
      194·
      11 months ago

      Probably because they were interested and wanted to know?

    • Retiring@lemmy.ml
      4·
      11 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

    • DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      11 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.