On 2017-05-27 18:06, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 02:03:49PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
>> Quoting Hendrik Boom (hendrik@???):
>>
>> > Anyone know what subsystems put files and directories in
>> > ~/.local/share/Trash ?
>> >
>> > I just found something like 443 gigabytes in there.
>>
>> I'll bet you use something like Nautilus or other graphical 'file
>> manager', right? On those, deletion isn't implemented as deletion,
>> but
>> rather what you just stumbled across.
>
> No, I don't. But it may have snuck onto my system sometime in the
> last decade or so. And been removed again.
>
> I'm a gnome, kde, and now systemd refugee. I feel at home here on
> Devuan.
>
> But there may well be some applications that depend on parts of ght
> gnome and kde libraries, and they my well have this dysfunction. I'm
> just wondering what they are.
>
>>
>> Personally, I find that bash makes a fabulous file manager, along with
>> its friends find, awk, sed, cut, etc.
>
> cp, mv, ls, and rm is what I usually use.
>
> -- hendrik
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>

On Xfce here, when I right click on a file/directory, I have two
options: Move to Trash and Delete. Second option bypasses the Trash
bin and sends it to oblivion. I checked my Thunar custom actions and
don't see it there so must be set up that way as default.

golinux