DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works to Linux@lemmy.ml · 7 months agoDo all DEs store the trash in the same place?message-squaremessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up162arrow-down1message-squareDo all DEs store the trash in the same place?DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works to Linux@lemmy.ml · 7 months agomessage-square12fedilinkfile-text
On Cinnamon and LxQt, the trash is in ~/.local/share/Trash. Is it the same for all desktop environments?
minus-squareDeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoI 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.
minus-squareSamueru@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoWhat 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
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.
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