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

  • Samueru@lemmy.ml
    118·
    10 months ago

    May I know why did you ask this?

    Edit: Why didnt people like this comment lol

    • Retiring@lemmy.ml
      2·
      10 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·
      9 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.

      • Samueru@lemmy.ml
        1·
        9 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