I wrote:

> Personally, I find that bash makes a fabulous file manager, along with
> its friends find, awk, sed, cut, etc.

Oh, and, just in case some other program with DE disease (like k3b)
decides to move a file there when you say to delete it):

$ chmod 000 ~/.local/share/Trash

(If that doesn't work, get a bigger hammer and set it immutable. ;-> )